LAW 6087

Advanced Torts

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

The course will offer a sustained analysis of tort law and remedies. The course will conduct in-depth examinations of certain key torts and torts' doctrines and will then consider whether the doctrine meets the demands of justice and efficiency.  The course will both reconsider some of the basic materials from the 1L Torts course—such as the grounds and scope of trespass torts—and extend the analysis to capture torts and doctrines—such as dignitary and economic torts—that typically receive little or no attention in that basic course.  At a more general level, engaging in these micro-based analyses of the law of torts could illuminate the broader, macro-based questions such as what tort law is for, what to make of the distinction between contract and torts, and between private and public law.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: LAW 5151.

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