Emerging issues in tort law / edited by Jason W Neyers, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen G A Pitel.

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2007.

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Torts -- United States.

1. General and special tort law: uses (and abuses) of theory / Peter Cane

2. Breach of statute and tort law / Lewis N Klar

3. Sois sage - responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs / Shauna van Praagh

4. Claims of involuntary parenthood: why the resistance? / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey

5. Liability for psychiatric damage: searching for a path between pragmatism and principle / Michael A Jones

6. Should White v Jones represent Canadian law: a return to first principles / Peter Benson

7. Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties / Stephen Waddams

8. Policy issues in defective property cases / Peter Todd

9. Defective structures and economic loss in the United States: law and policy / David F Partlett

10. Harm screening under negligence law / Israel Gilead

11. Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes / Richard W Wright

12. Decision causation: Pandora's tool-box / Vaughan Black

13. Non-delegable duties and vicarious liability / Robert Stevens

14. Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties / John Murphy

15. Perish vicarious liability? / David R Wingfield

16. Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability: defining the scope of employment / Paula Giliker

17. What is a loss? / Andrew Tettenborn

18. The changing face of the gist of negligence / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam

19. Tort law in practice: appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages / Richard Lewis

20. The source of the intentional torts / Ken Oliphant

21. The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton / Denise Réaume

22. Where principle meets pragmatism: tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong / Rich Glofcheski.

In this book, articles by leading tort scholars from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States deal with important theoretical and practical issues that are emerging in the law of torts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781841137070

xvi, 593 p.