1. Introduction/ Overview 

1.1. History, tradition, roles, common law background, general overview

1.2. Role of Juries

The Role of the Jury in Torts Cases (TRT25L)

2. Intentional Torts Against the Person

2.1. "Intent" defined

Intent Two: Computer-Aided Intent Questions (TRT02)

Intent One: The Use of Intent in Tort (TRT01)

Sprague Case: Child Injury in Tort Law (TRT03)

Intentional Torts (TRT04)

2.2. Battery

Battery Basics (TRT10L)

Battery Puzzlers (TRT12L)

2.3. Assault

Assault (TRT18L)

2.4. Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED)

Intentional Infliction of Mental Distress (TRT27L)

2.5. False imprisonment

False Imprisonment (TRT28L)

2.6. Fundamental Concepts of Damages

3. Defenses to Intentional Torts

3.1. Consent

Intentional Torts (TRT04)

Informed Consent (TRT44L)

3.1.1. Capacity to Consent (medical care, atheletic events, acts beyond consent)

3.2. Consent as Defense

Consent as a Defense to Intentional Torts (TRT39L)

4. Intentional Torts Against Property

4.1. Trespass to Land

Intentional Torts (TRT04)

Damages for Harms to Real Property (TRT15L)

4.1.1. General

4.1.2. Defenses

4.1.3. Contrasted to Nuisance

4.2. Trespass to chattels

Trespass to Chattels (TRT47)

4.2.1. General

4.2.2. Damages measured

4.2.3. Defenses

4.3. Conversion

Conversion (TRT46)

4.3.1. General

4.3.2. Remedies

4.3.3. Defenses

5. Negligence

5.1. Elements of negligence

5.1.1. Duty

Negligence (TRT05)

5.1.1.1. Basic Duty Concepts

5.1.1.2. Misfeasance and nonfeasance

5.1.1.2.1. Duty to warn

5.1.1.3. Effect of contract

5.1.1.4. Mental suffering

5.1.1.5. Unborn children, wrongful life, wrongful birth, survival actions

5.1.1.6. Obligation to control the conduct of others

5.1.1.6.1. Duty to warn

5.1.1.7. Purely economic loss

5.1.2. Breach of Duty

5.1.2.1. Standards of Care

5.1.2.1.1. Reasonable Person

Reasonable Person (TRT06L)

5.1.2.1.2. Children and Others

Children and Others of Diminished Capacity (TRT09L)

5.1.2.1.3. Professionals

General Professional Standard (TRT13L)

5.1.2.1.4. Emergency doctrine

5.1.2.2. Proof of Breach of Duty

5.1.2.3. Civil and criminal statutes

Civil and Criminal Statutes (TRT16L)

5.1.2.4. Medical Malpractice

5.1.3. Proximate cause a.k.a. legal cause

5.1.3.1. Causation in fact

Causation in Fact (TRT11L)

5.1.3.2. Proof causation

Proof of Causation in Fact (TRT17L)

5.1.3.3. Proximate cause

5.1.3.4. Foreseeability

5.1.3.5. Intervening cause

Intervening Cause (TRT42L)

5.1.4. Damages

5.1.4.1. Actual damages

5.2. Res Ipsa Loquitur

Res Ipsa Loquitur (TRT32L)

6. Defenses in Negligence Actions

Negligence (TRT05)

6.1. Contributory negligence standards & last clear chance

Contributory Negligence and Last Clear Chance (TRT38L)

6.2. Comparative negligence/fault

Comparative Fault (TRT07L)

6.3. Assumption of risk

Assumption of Risk (TRT40L)

6.4. Statutes of Limitations & repose

6.5. Family

6.6. Sovereign Immunity

6.7. Federal Tort Claims Act

7. Multiple Tortfeasors

7.1. Multiple Tortfeasors

Multiple Defendants (TRT34L)

8. Owners and Occupiers of Land

8.1. Outside premises

8.2. Trespassers

Occupiers' Liability to Trespassers (TRT14L)

8.3. Licensees

Occupier's Liability to Invitees and Licensees (TRT31L)

8.4. Invitees

Occupier's Liability to Invitees and Licensees (TRT31L)

8.5. Landlord and tenant

9. Vicarious Liability

9.1. Application of the concept

9.1.1. Employer-Employee General Concepts

9.2. Other Categories (joint enterprise, family, vehicles)

10. Strict Liability

10.1. Animals

Strict Liability and Animals (TRT37L)

10.2. Ultra-hazardous & abnormally dangerous activities

Strict Liability: Abnormally Dangerous and Ultrahazardous Activities (TRT36L)

11. Compensation Systems

11.5. Worker's Compensation

11.6. No-fault auto insurance

12. Products Liability

12.1. Liability for defectively designed products

Liability for Defectively Designed Products (TRT29L)

12.2. Liability for defectively manufactured products

Liability for Defectively Manufactured Products (TRT35L)

12.3. Warranty

13. Nuisance

13.1. Nuisance in general

13.2. Public & private

14. Damages

14.1. General concepts of damages

General Concepts of Damages in Torts (TRT08L)

14.2. Compensatory damages

Damages for Harms to Real Property (TRT15L)

14.3. Damages to personal property

14.3.1. Fundamentals

Fundamentals of Damages for Harms to Personal Property (TRT20L)

14.3.2. Interests in physical integrity of personal property

Damages for Harms to Interests in Physical Integrity of Personal Property (TRT23L)

14.3.3. Possessory interests

Damages for Harms to Possessory Interests in Personal Property (TRT21L)

14.3.4. Use & enjoyment

Damages for Harms to Interest in Use and Enjoyment (TRT22L)

14.4. Harms for personal injury & death

Damages for Personal Injuries (TRT41L)

Damages for Injuries That Cause Death (TRT43L)

15. Extra Topics

15.1. Invasion of Privacy

15.1.1. General Overview

Basic Issues in the Right of Privacy (TRT26L)

15.1.2. Detailed analysis of each claim for relief

15.1.2.1. Intrusion

15.1.2.2. Public Disclosure

15.1.2.3. False light

15.1.2.4. Commercial appropriation

15.1.3. Limitations on the right of privacy

15.1.3.1. Constitutional limits

Constitutional Issues in the Right of Privacy (TRT24L)

15.1.3.2. General Defenses

15.2. Defamation

15.2.1. Basic law & issues

Basic Issues in Defamation and Privileges (TRT19L)

15.2.2. Libel and slander

Libel and Slander (TRT30L)

15.2.3. Constiututional Limitations and defenses

Constitutional Issues in Defamation (TRT33L)

15.3. Civil Rights Torts

15.4. Impact of insurance on tort litigation

15.5. Business Torts

15.5.1. Misrepresentation

15.5.2. Intentional interference with contractual relations

15.5.3. Interference with prospective advantage

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