Tort Law

Sarah Green, Dr Jodi Gardner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

648 Seiten

2024 | 2nd edition
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-7185-5 (ISBN)

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The 2nd edition of Green and Gardner’s Tort Law textbook provides students with a clear overview of tort law with focus and precision. It includes clear explanations of core legal principles and recent legal developments with lively discussions of key academic perspectives. Extended problem questions, flowcharts and relatable examples help students to understand how law works in a practical context and prepares them for success in assignments and exams. Engaging pedagogical features, such as ‘Viewpoint’ and ‘Making Connections’, encourage students to develop their own critical thinking practice and appreciate how tort law interacts with other areas of the core law curriculum.

Practical and student-friendly with engaging visual features, Tort Law is an essential companion for all undergraduate tort law modules, for students of all abilities.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/tort-law-2e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Sarah Green is the Law Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales. Prior to that, she was Professor of Private Law at the University of Bristol, Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She has written two books about specific elements of tort law, and has also published on a variety of other topics including virtual currencies, blockchain issues surrounding intermediated securities, smart contracts, sale of goods law as applicable to digitised assets, and wage theft. Jodi Gardner is the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is also a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law, National University of Singapore. Jodi’s research is primarily focused on the intersection between private law and social policy. She has written on a variety of different topics in this area including the regulation of high-cost credit contracts, the impact of austerity measures, the effect of open banking on financial exclusion, online auctions, and concurrent liability in tort and contract.

1. Introduction

Part 1: The Tort of Negligence
2. Duty of Care
3. Pure Economic Loss
4. Psychiatric Injury
5. Breach of Duty
6. Causation
7. Remoteness

Part 2: Torts Relating to Land and Goods
8. Occupiers’ Liability
9. Product Liability
10. Nuisance and the Rule in Rylands v Fletcher

Part 3: Intentional Torts
11. The Economic Torts
12. Intentional Torts against the Person

Part 4: Defamation and Privacy
13. Defamation
14. Privacy and Breach of Confidence

Part 5: General Matters
15. Vicarious Liability
16. Defences
17. Damages

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Besonderes Schuldrecht
ISBN-10	1-5099-7185-8 / 1509971858
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-7185-5 / 9781509971855
Zustand	Neuware