American Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes and Comments

by Marshall S. Shapo

The third edition provides new material on purposes of tort law, battery, sexual harassment, terminology and policies of negligence, health care malpractice issues, assumption of risk, strict liability, proof and causation, duty and proximate cause, duty to act, media torts, damages. Coverage also includes case summaries of newsworthy issues of headline interest throughout the text. A new chapter on fraud and heart balm torts has been added as well.

595 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

Reviews

[Patrick]

Excellent demonstration of tort law mastery, deeply delving into policy rationales and societal goals while not avoiding the obvious economic undertones.