Tort law : challenging orthodoxy /
edited by Stephen G.A. Pitel, Jason W. Neyers and Erika Chamberlain.
- xxii, 493 p. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Against certainty in tort law / Tort law and human flourishing / Private and public : the mixed concept of vindication in torts and private law / 'We do this in the criminal law and that in the law of tort' : a new fusion debate / Challenging the orthodoxy of crime's precedence over tort : suspending a tort claim where a crime may exist / Legislative challenges to orthodoxy / Statutes and civil liability in the Commonwealth and the United States : a comparative critique / The 'doubles the risk' test for causation and other related judicial misconceptions about epidemiology / Rationalising loss of a chance in tort / When is emotional distress harm? / Rethinking contributory negligence / Nuisance law and damages in lieu of an injunction : challenging the orthodoxy of the Shelfer Criteria / The tort of conspiracy as a can of worms / Aid, abet, counsel or procure? / 'That unhappy expression' : malice at the margins / Dissociating the two forms of so-called 'vicarious liability' / Ken Oliphant -- Nicholas J. McBride -- Kit Barker -- Graham Virgo -- Matthew Dyson -- James Lee -- Neil Foster -- Claire McIvor -- Sandy Steel -- Gregory C. Keating -- James Goudkamp -- Mark L Wilde -- Hazel Carty -- Paul S. Davies -- Elspeth Reid -- Christine Beuermann.