Key Ideas in Tort Law

by Peter Cane

Overview

This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in particular, on how tort law can guide people's behaviour, and the political and social environments within which it operates. It also provides the reader with a wealth of detail about the ideas and values that underlie tort 'doctrine'-tort law's rules and principles, and the way those rules and principles operate in practice. The book is an accessible introduction to tort law that will provide students, scholars and practitioners alike with a fresh and engaging view of the subject.


'In this masterful and engaging survey, Peter Cane provides an array of illuminating perspectives on the law of torts, laying bare its nature, structure and functions, as well as its legal, social and political context.'

Andrew Robertson, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509909438
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	08/10/2017
Series:	Key Ideas in Law
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	293 KB

About the Author

Peter Cane is a Senior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law, and before that a Professor of Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Peter Cane is a Senior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law, and before that a Professor of Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on law, including Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law (8th ed, 2013), Responsibility in Law and Morality (2003), The Anatomy of Tort Law (1997), Tort Law and Economic Interests (2nd ed, 1996), and Administrative Law (5th ed, 2011).

Table of Contents

1 Nine Key Ideas 1

2 Tort Law 5

3 Torts 13

4 Torts Unpacked 21

5 Torts Repackaged 53

6 Wrongs 73

7 Out and About with Tort Law 83

8 Politics 101

9 Uses 111

10 The Political Economy of Compensation Schemes 121

11 The Future of Tort Law 129

Bibliography 133

Table of Cases 135