Description
Book SynopsisShapo cuts through the emotion and the complexity to present a view of litigated tort law problems that is both legally sound and intuitively appealing.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One
- Private Duties to Act: Legal Affirmation of the Obligations of Personal Power
- Introduction
- I. Primarily Economic Relationships That Give Rise to Duties
- Businesses, Professions, and Activities
- Methods of Creating Relationships
- II. Relationships More Closely Personal
- III. Protection against Third Parties
- A Spectrum of Customers and Employees
- The Case of Violence in the Tavern
- Private Duties and Public Control
- The Professional Bystander
- IV. Plaintiff’s Own Conduct a Hazard
- V. A Thesis on the “Unrelated” Bystander: The Law as a Manifestation That “It Tolls for Thee”
- Summary
- Part Two
- Public Duties to Act: Vindicating Personal Interests against Invasion and Neglect by Commonwealth Power
- Introduction
- VI. Highway Safety as a Paradigm of Liability for Planning and Maneuvering
- Traffic Control: Duties to the Public and the Dependence of Individuals
- Highway Design: Choice, Knowledge, and Fairness
- VII. Security
- Firefighting
- Inspection
- Rescue
- Police Functions
- VIII. Welfare
- Medical Care
- Municipal Services
- Educational Standards
- Linking Public and Private Obligation: Police Duty and Individual Welfare
- Summary
- Notes
- Index
