Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury

by Dan B. Dobbs

This easy-to-use doctrinal favorite incorporates many cases decided within the last several years. It emphasizes personal injury torts, including civil rights torts, but also covers non-tort systems of compensation, including social security and workers' compensation. Several chapters deal with current medical malpractice and products liability law. (The malpractice chapter has a new section on nursing home liability.) Shorter chapters cover economic and dignitary torts such as defamation, privacy, fraud and others. In approach, this book attempts to present basic concepts such as duty, negligence, cause, scope of risk, and comparative responsibility by using cases and notes that ask for thoughtful analysis and synthesis, as well as respect for facts and policy. The book also investigates such current issues as tort reform and apportionment of responsibility.

Genres: Law, Legal

1082 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Shelby]

Disclaimer: This is a 3/5 on the casebook scale, not to be compared to the rating system I use for books that I read for joy (rather than for grades).

Pros:
- Some truly wild cases
- Short and snappy explanations of concepts
- Thought-provoking questions in notes

Cons:
- Too much economics (triggering)
- No answers to thought-provoking questions in notes (I’m expected to supply those??)

Note: I read the 9th edition (not available here for review)

[ali]

ya know, not my favorite

[Leanna Gonino]

Currently taking torts and this book is killing me. The concepts are unorganized and difficult to follow. I am required to read this book for class, but I am using supplements outside of class to actually learn torts. Help

[Erin Mehigan]

Yes, I am taking credit for my law school books.

[Adrienna]

After watching videos on law school, 1L students, and those who will attend law school for the first time recommended not to read this material since it will not make sense to you until you go! Therefore, I only found myself highlighting the book on terms when it is more than just detailed information but how these terms can be exemplified for a future cases, or looking at past cases in law school. Therefore, I will pack the book back in safe keeping until future use.


Adrienna Turner, author of God is in the Equation
www.adriennaturner.webs.com

[Ryan Merchant]

Gonna have to rate this on a case book scale, not a regular book. But this was by far the most engaging one of the semester. Fun and interesting cases (Palsgraf) throughout, but that may just be torts in general. Also had good notes cases.