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Torts

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Legal Research Subject Guide
November 2007

A tort is a civil wrong for which a remedy may be obtained, usually in the form of damages; a breach of a duty that the law imposes on everyone in the same relation to one another as those involved in a given transaction.

Black's Law Dictionary

Treatises

KF 1250.Z9 A27 2002
Abraham, Kenneth S. The forms and functions of tort law. New York, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2002.

KF 1250.Z9 P72 1986
American Bar Association. Tort and Insurance Practice Section. Practice TIPS for litigators 2: three years of Practice TIPS from the Brief. Chicago, Ill.: Tort and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association, c1986.

KF 1257 .E57 1991
The American Law Institute. Enterprise responsibility for personal injury: reporters' study. v.1. The institutional framework v.2. Approaches to legal and institutional change.

KF 1250 .B4 1997
Bell, Peter A. & O'Connell, Jeffrey P. Accidental justice: the dilemmas of tort law. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1997.

KF 1250.Z9 B47 2004
Bernstein, Anita & Leonard, David P. Questions & answers: torts. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, c2004. Multiple choice and short answer questions and answers.

KF 1296 .B64 2001
Bogus, Carl T. Why lawsuits are good for America: disciplined democracy, big business, and the common law. New York: New York University Press, c2001.

KF 1250.Z9 C47 1990 (Reserve)
Christie, George C. & Phillips, Jerry J. Casenote law outlines. Torts. Beverly Hills, CA: Casenotes Pub. Co., 1990.

KF 1251 .C58 2004
Cochran, Robert F. & Ackerman, Robert M. Law and community: the case of torts. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2004.

KF 1450 .D36 1995 (Watson Library Stacks)
Daniels, Stephen & Martin, Joanne. Civil juries and the politics of reform. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, American Bar Foundation, c1995.

KF 8900 .D37 1994
Danner, Douglas & Varn, Larry L. Pattern discovery. Tort actions. Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, c1994-.

KF 1250.Z9 P45 1990
Denning, Jacqueline R. Pernicious ideas and costly consequences: the intellectual roots of the tort crisis. Washington, D.C.: National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 1990.

KF 1250 .D5 2000
Diamond, John L.; Levine, Lawrence C. & Madden, M. Stuart. Understanding torts. 2nd ed. New York: Matthew Bender, 2000.

KF 1250 .D59 2001 (Reserve)
Dobbs, Dan B. The law of torts. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2001.

KF 8984 .D7 1993
Eades, Ronald W. Jury instructions on damages in tort actions. Charlottesville, Va.: Michie Co., c1993.

KF 1250.Z9 E47 1994 (Reserve)
Emanuel, Steven. Torts. 5th ed. Larchmont, NY: Emanuel Law Outlines, c1994.

KF 1249 .E673 1999
Epstein, Richard Allen. Torts. Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen Law & Business, c1999.

KF 1257 .E87 1991
Estes, Ralph W. Estes economic loss tables: tables for estimating economic loss in cases of wrongful death and personal injury. Washington, DC: A.U. Publishing, 1991.

KF 1249 .F37 2004
Farnsworth, Ward & Grady, Mark F. Torts: cases and questions. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2004.

KF 1301.A2 B87 2006
Ferrill, A. Michael. Business torts & unfair competition: a practitioner's handbook. Chicago, Ill.: Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, 2006.

KF 1250.Z9 R8 1978 (Reserve)
Franklin, Marc A. Torts. Gardena, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Legal and Professional Publications, inc., c1978.

KF 1251 .F75 2003
Fried, Charles & Rosenberg, David. Making tort law: what should be done and who should do it. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2003.

KF 1250.Z9 G58 2005
Glannon, Joseph W. The law of torts: examples and explanations. 3rd ed. Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen Law & Business, c2005.

KF 1316 .G74 1992
Green, Ronald Michael & Reibstein, Richard J. Employer's guide to workplace torts: negligent hiring, fraud, defamation, and other emerging areas of employer liability. Washington, D.C.: BNA Books, c1992.

KF 380 .H35 2004
Haltom, William & McCann, Michael J. Distorting the law: politics, media, and the litigation crisis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

KF 1250 .H37 1996
Harper, Fowler V.; James, Fleming & Gray, Oscar S. The law of torts. 3rd ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996-.

KF 1249 .H4 2007
Henderson, James A.; Pearson, Richard N. & Siliciano, John A. The torts process. 7th ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c2007.

K 282 .H48 2004
Hetcher, Steven A. Norms in a wired world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

K 487.S3 H82 1991
Huber, Peter W. Galileo's revenge: junk science in the courtroom. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, c1991. Also available in Watson Library Stacks.

KF 1251 .C64 1991
Huber, Peter W. and Litan, Robert E. eds. The Liability maze: the impact of liability law on safety and innovation. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, c1991. Each chapter written by different expert in the area of product liability.

KF 1269 .K37 2005
Karp, Leonard & Karp, Cheryl L. Domestic torts: family violence, conflict, and sexual abuse. Revised edition. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, c2005.

KF 1250 .K497 1990
Kiely, Terrence F. Modern tort liability: recovery in the '90s. New York: Wiley Law Publications, c1990.

KF 1250.Z9 K527 2002
Kionka, Edward J. Torts. St. Paul, MN: West Group, c2002.

KF 1250.Z9 K53 2005 (Reserve)
Kionka, Edward J. Torts in a nutshell. 4th ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2005.

KF 1250 .K57 2001
Koenig, Thomas H. & Rustad, Michael. In defense of tort law. New York: New York University Press, c2001.

KF 1250.Z9 K65 1989
Komesar, Neil K. Injuries and institutions: tort reform, tort theory and beyond. Madison, Wis.: Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, 1989.

KF 1250 .J63 1995
Johnson, Vincent R. Mastering torts: a student's guide to the law of torts. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c1995.

KF 1250 .D6 2002
Lee, J. D.; Lindahl, Barry A. & Dooley, James A. Modern tort law: liability & litigation. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, c2002-. 5 volumes.

KF 1246 .T6
Levin, Bruce A. and Coyne, Robert. Tort reform and related proposals: annotated bibliographies on product liability and medical malpractice. Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1979. Prepared for the American Bar Association, Section of Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law, Special Committee to Study the Tort System, by the American Bar Foundation.

KF 1250.A2 F68 1993
Levmore, Saul X. Foundations of tort law. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, c1993.

KF 1296.M37 2003
Marshall, Donald and Weissbrodt, David S. The common law process of torts. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Pub. Co., c2003.

KF 1301.A2 B87 2005
Georgehead, Ann, Gwin, Robert Y., Soley, David A. Business torts litigation. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, c2005.

KF 1300 .N65 1995
Nolan, Virginia E. & Ursin, Edmund. Understanding enterprise liability: rethinking tort reform for the twenty-first century. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

KF 1249 .N94 1998
Nygren, Carolyn. Starting off right in torts. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998.

KF 1254 .P34 2003
Page, Joseph A. Torts-- proximate cause. New York, N.Y.: Foundation Press; St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2003.

K 579.L5 P3 1991
Pfennigstorf, Werner. A comparative study of liability law and compensation schemes in ten countries and the United States. Oak Brook, Ill.: Insurance Research Council, c1991.

K 923 .P49 2001
Postema, Gerald J. Philosophy and the law of torts. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

KF 1249 .R3 1995
Rabin, Robert L. Perspectives on tort law. Boston: Little, Brown, c1995.

KF 1251 .R34 1995
Rahdert, Mark C. Covering accident costs: insurance, liability, and tort reform. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995.

KF 1249 .R48
Rheingold, Paul D. Mass tort litigation. Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1996-. Updates cancelled 1/2006.

KF 1251 .R83 1993
Rubin, Paul H. Tort reform by contract. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1993.

KF 1250.Z9 S53 2003
Shapo, Marshall S. Principles of tort law. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson-West, 2003.

KF 1249 .S46 2003
Shapo, Marshall S. Tort law and culture. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c2003.

K 923 .T67 1991
Weinrib, Ernest Joseph. Tort law. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1991.

KF 1250 .W45 1995
Weinstein, Jack B. Individual justice in mass tort litigation: the effect of class actions, consolidations, and other multiparty devices. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1995. Also available in Watson Library Stacks.

KF 1250 .W55 1990
Wills, Robert V. Lawyers are killing America: a trial lawyer's appeal for genuine reform. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1990.

KF 1250.Z9 Z58 2004
Zittrain, Jonathan & Harrison, Jennifer T. K. The torts game: defending Mean Joe Greene. New York: Aspen Publishers, c2004.

Kansas and Missouri Materials

KFK 90.D3 K35 1990
Corrin, Dwight A. Kansas damages: for plaintiff and defense attorneys. Eau Claire, Wis.: National Business Institute, c1990.

KFM 7876.Z9 M58 v.34
Dierker, Robert H. Personal injury and torts handbook. Saint Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2000-. New edition each year.

KF 211 .L58
Howard, Robert L....[et al.]. Litigation trends institute. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, 1988.

KFK 195.A59 K35 1992
Kansas Judicial Center. Office of Judicial Administration. Jury verdicts in tort cases: a report. Topeka, Kan.: The Office, 1992.

KFM 7995 .M44 1993
Mehan, Richard J. & Dierker, Robert H. Missouri causes of action, torts: a manual for the general practitioner. Clearwater, Fla.: Butterworth Legal Publishers, c1993-.

KFM 7995 .M57 2003
Missouri Bar. Committee on Legal Education. Missouri tort law. Jefferson City, Mo. (326 Monroe, Jefferson City 65101): Missouri Bar, c2003. Kept up-to-date by supplements to individual chapters.

KFM 7995 .M567
Missouri damages awards: personal injury & intentional torts : analysis of specific dollar awards by type of injury or action. Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Cooperative Pub., c1993-. Periodicals

K 24 .O69
American Bar Association. Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Tort trial & insurance practice law journal. Chicago, IL: Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association, c2002-.

K 14 .A17
American Trial Lawyers Association. Journal of the American Trial Lawyers Association. Cambridge, Mass. Holdings: Volumes 25-37, at Annex.

Casebooks

KF 1249 .B47 2007
Best, Arthur & Barnes, David W. Basic tort law: cases, statutes, and problems. New York, NY: Aspen Publishers, c2007.

KF 1249 .C48 2004
Christie, George C. ... [et al.]. Cases and materials on the law of torts. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, c2004.

KF 1249 .D5 2001
Diamond, John L. Cases and materials on tort. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2001.

KF 1249 .H4 2007
Henderson, James A.; Pearson, Richard N. & Siliciano, John A. The torts process. Austin : Aspen Publishers, 2007.

KF 1249 .C37 2004
Keeton, Robert E.; Sargentich, Lewis D. & Keating, Gregory C. Tort and accident law: cases and materials. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, c2004.

KF 1249 .T65 2002
Phillips, Jerry J. ... [et al.]. Tort law: cases, materials, problems. New York: LexisNexis, 2002.

KF 1249 .S58 2003
Shulman, Harry. ... [et al.]. Cases and materials on the law of torts. New York, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2003.

KF 1249 .T93 2003
Twerski, Aaron D. & Henderson, James A. Torts: cases and materials. New York, NY: Aspen Publishers, c2003.

KF 1249 .V36 2003
Vandall, Frank J.; Wertheimer, Ellen. & Rahdert, Mark C. Torts: cases and problems. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, 2003.

KF 1249 .V48 2006
Vetri, Dominick R. ... [et al.]. Tort law and practice. 3rd ed. Newark, N.J.: LexisNexis, 2006.

KF 1249 .T675 2005
Weaver, Russell L. ... [et al.]. Torts: cases, problems, and exercises. 2nd ed. Newark, NJ : LexisNexis, c2006.

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