The Glannon Guide to Torts

Front Matter
	Editorial Advisors
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	About Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory
	Dedication
	Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
	1. A Very Short Introduction
	2. Torts Basics: The Prima Facie Case and Affirmative Defenses
Part I: Intentional Torts
	3. Physical Invasions: (Harmful) Battery, Purposeful Infliction of Bodily Harm, Trespass to Land, Trespass to Chattels, and Conversion
	4. Emotional and Dignitary Torts: Assault, Offensive Battery, and False Imprisonment
	5. Affirmative Defenses to Intentional Torts
	6. Intentional Tort Frontiers: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Part II: Negligence
	7. Introduction to Negligence: Corrective Justice, Efficiency, and the Choice Between Strict Liability and Negligence
	8. Breach: The Reasonable Person Standard
	9. More Ways of Proving Breach: Custom, Negligence Per Se, and Res Ipsa Loquitur
	10. Affirmative Defenses to Negligence: Contributory Negligence, Comparative Negligence, and Assumption of Risk
	11. Basic Duty Rules: Foreseeable Plaintiffs, the Sports Cases, and Risk Creation
	12. More Duty Rules: Special Relationships, Landowners, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
Part III: Causation
	13. Actual Cause: “But for” Causation, Its Complications, and Exceptions
	14. Proximate Cause: Policy Limitations on the Scope of Liability
Part IV: Strict Liability Torts
	15. From Traditional Strict Liability to Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities
	16. Nuisance
	17. Vicarious Liability
Part V: Products Liability
	18. The Prima Facie Case for Products Liability Torts
	19. Products Liability Torts Defenses, Including Preemption
Part VI: Damages
	20. Compensatory Damages
	21. Mitigation, Offsetting Benefits, and Collateral Sources
	22. Joint and Several Liability
	23. Punitive Damages and Their Constitutional Limitations
	24. Closing Closers
Table of Cases
Table of Restatement Sections Cited
Table of Books and Articles Cited
Index