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This video is just one of 70 videos in our lecture on torts.
"Torts" table of contents:
1. Introduction
+ Opening Remarks
2. Intentional Torts
+ Intent
+ Battery
+ Assault
+ False Imprisonment
+ Trespass to Land
+ Trespass to Chattel and Conversion of Chattel
+ Examples of Trespass and Conversion of Chattel
+ Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
3. Defenses to Intentional Torts
+ Self-Defense
+ Defending and Retaking Property: Use of Force
+ Defending and Retaking Property: Shopkeeper's Privileges
+ Consent
+ Necessity
4. The Basic Elements of Negligence
+ Introduction to Negligence
5. Negligence: Duty of Care
+ Importance of Duty and the "No Duty to Act" Rule
+ General Reasonable Person Standard
+ Introduction to Professional and Medical Liability
+ Duties of Children and Other Particular Standards of Care
+ Duty to Foreseeable Plaintiffs
+ Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees
+ Examples of the Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees
+ Duties of Landowners to Their Residential Tenants
+ Duties of Landowners to Child Trespassers
+ Introduction to Recreational Use Statutes
+ Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with Plaintiff
+ Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with the Third Person
+ Duty Arising from Risk Creation
+ Duty Arising from a Promise, Undertaking, or Relationship
+ Duties of Those Who Furnish Alcohol for Profit
+ Duties Among Family Members
6. Negligence: Particular Issues
+ Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
+ Slip and Fall Cases
+ Toxic Torts
+ The Firefighter's Rule
+ Good Samaritan Laws
7. Negligence: Breach
+ Evaluating Defendant's Conduct and Establishing Breach
+ Negligence Per Se
+ Res Ipsa Loquitur
8. Negligence: Harm and Actual Causation
+ Actual Harm
+ Tests for Actual Causation
9. Negligence: Proximate Cause
+ Introduction to Proximate Cause
+ Role of Intervening Persons or Forces
+ Relationship Between Proximate Cause and Plaintiff's Fault
10. Defenses to Negligence
+ Contributory Negligence
+ Comparative Fault Schemes
+ Plaintiff's Illegal Activity
+ Assumption of the Risk
+ Statutes of Limitation
11. Vicarious Liability
+ Introduction to Vicarious Liability
+ Respondeat Superior: The Master-Servant Relationship
+ Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Negligence)
+ Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Intentional Torts)
+ Employer Liability for the Torts of Independent Contractors
12. Strict Liability
+ Introduction to Strict Liability
+ Trespassing Animals
+ Nuisance
+ Abnormally Dangerous Activities
+ Defenses to Strict Liability
13. Products Liability
+ Introduction to Products Liability
+ Manufacturing Defects
+ Manufacturing Defects in Food
+ Design Defects
+ Exclusion of Mere Economic Loss
+ Warning or Informational Defects
+ Negligence in Products Liability
+ Strict Liability in Products Liability
+ Defenses to Product Liability
14. Responsibility and Damages
+ Joint and Several Liability
+ Contribution in a Joint and Several Liability System
+ Indemnification, Subrogation, and Satisfaction
+ Compensatory and Punitive Damages
+ Death in Tort Law
+ Avoidable Consequences and Plaintiff's Mitigation of Damages
+ Emotional Distress as Damage
+ Loss of Consortium
15. Economic, Dignitary, and Relational Torts
+ Introduction to Defamation
+ Defamation in Light of the First Amendment
+ Privileges and Defenses to Defamation
+ Damages in Common Law Defamation
16. Conclusion
+ Final Thoughts
