The Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations
Author: Joseph W. Glannon
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ISBN: 0735511918
Publisher: Panel Publishing (January, 2000)
Sales Rank: 34,776
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Too basic to be helpful
This book is too basic and only covers a small part of the first-year Torts course. Don't rely on this to help much for the exam! I would recommend finding something with more detail on Negligence and Products Liability.
Rating: 5 out of 5
My professor loved it!
I bought this book, but I happened to be lucky enough to have a wonderful torts professor so that I never even opened it. However, with that said, I still had experience with this book. My teacher used the examples from it constantly in class to help us understand torts, and it was wonderful. My professor openly advocates this book and many of my classmates swore by it. I do think it could use a little help on the negligence section, but if your torts professor was as horrible as some of my fellow 1Ls, then I highly recommend you purchase this book as a supplement to quiz yourself and make sure you've got those prima facie cases down pat, inside and out.
Rating: 1 out of 5
AVOID THIS TREATISE
I strongly recommend against buying this book. A lot of the material covered in a first year Torts class is not covered in this book; a few examples are false imprisonment, defamation, and invasion of privacy. In addition, this book has MISTAKES in it regarding the law; one example is it does not specify the standard of care owed by a physician in a medical malpractice case correctly. Of course it does not even have a separate section dealing with duty owed by professionals...Instead of this book, I would strongly recommend Understanding Torts by Diamond (Lexis) or the Law of Torts by Dobbs (West).
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