Torts I

Fall 2009

Professor H. Tomas Gomez-Arostegui

All links on this site are to documents in Adobe Acrobat Reader format (*.pdf) or Microsoft Word (*.doc), unless otherwise noted.

Torts I Syllabus, v. 3.1

Past Torts Exams

Torts Final Exam - Spring 2007

Torts Final Exam - Fall 2008

Torts Final Exam Sample Answers - Fall 2008

Casebook

D.B. Dobbs and P.T. Hayden, TORTS AND COMPENSATION: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INJURY (Thomson/West: 5th ed. 2005)--do NOT purchase the newest 6th edition.

Recommended Reading

These are not required readings, but are useful as alternative sources of information on tort law:

Mini-Hornbooks:

John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine, & M. Stuart Madden, UNDERSTANDING TORTS (LexisNexis: 3d ed. 2007 or the 2d ed. 2000)

Marshall S. Shapo, PRINCIPLES OF TORT LAW (Thomson/West: 2d ed. 2003)

Hornbooks:

W. Page Keeton, Dan B. Dobbs, Robert E. Keeton, & David G. Owen, PROSSER AND KEETON ON TORTS (West Group: 5th ed. 1984)

Dan B. Dobbs, THE LAW OF TORTS (West Group: 2000)

The Restatements:

American Law Institute, THE RESTATEMENT (2d) OF TORTS (1965)

American Law Institute, THE RESTATEMENT (3d) OF TORTS: PHYSICAL HARMS (April 2005 Draft)

These Restatements are available through your Westlaw account.

Supplemental Reading

Pearson

Kremen

CompuServe

Restatement on False Imprisonment, Conversion, and Trespass to Chattels

Self-Defense Handout

Restatement and Cal Evid Code on Negligence Per Se

Class Handouts

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Class 1 Handout - PDF
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