It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.
Study Aids, Strategies & Exam Prep: Torts
Print and online study aids for required and suggested 2L and 3L classes most of which are part of bar exam study.
Introduces the basic structure of our legal system and to the distinctive features of legal reasoning. To prepare students for exams, the book explains in clear and careful detail what exams are designed to test. It then devotes a single, clearly written chapter to each step of the process of answering exams. Includes sample exams for Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property and Torts as well as student answers, model answers and professor analysis.
Offers over 1,000 short answer questions that present a fact pattern and ask you to provide a conclusion. Questions cover: Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Property, and Torts.
Questions & Answers: Torts
Call Number: Study Aids First Floor at KF1250.Z9 .B47 2018
Multiple-choice and short-answer questions and answers. Older editions available on 2nd Floor at KF1250.Z9 B47
Reviews and Hornbooks
A Short and Happy Guide to Torts by Roger Schechter
Call Number: Study Aids First Floor: KF1250.Z9 .S34 2022
ISBN: 9781636591100
Publication Date: 2021
In this updated and refreshed version of his concise book Professor Schechter, an award-winning teacher and prominent national bar lecturer, has balanced brevity and humor with a clear, crisp, and accessible review of basic Torts doctrine.
Torts in a Nutshell by Edward Kionka
Call Number: Reserve Study, ask at Circulation Desk
ISBN: 1684673267
Publication Date: 2020
Older editions on 2nd Floor: KF1250.Z9 K53 2015
A clear, concise, current, and authoritative explanation of all of the most important U.S. tort law doctrines, including those covered in first-year torts courses in law schools. Coverage includes tort law origins and objectives; causation; strict liability; negligence liability and defenses; intentional tort liability and defenses; special liability rules (premises liability, products liability, employers, etc.); damages; tort and contract; immunities; wrongful death and survival; defamation; privacy; misrepresentation.
Online self-paced interactive lessons with sample questions on a variety of torts topics. Villanova Law students and faculty should contact Lori Corso (lori.corso@law.villanova.edu) to request the access code.
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics including: introduction to Torts, Cause in Fact, Comparative Negligence, Immunities, Products Liability, and Proximate Cause, Intentional Torts, Landowner Liability, Reasonable Person Test, Res Ipsa Loquitur, and Violation of Statute.
Restates rules with commentary and illustrations. Use Restatement Third for Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, Apportionment of Liability, Products Liability, and Liability for Economic Harm. Print edition: 2nd Floor at KF1249 .T685
Print edition: 2nd Floor: KF1249 .T693
Rules, commentary and illustrations related to joint and severable liability, apportionment of damages, contribution and indemnity and other related topics. Supersedes Torts Second on these issues