Torts I

Fall 2010

Professor H. Tomas Gomez-Arostegui

All links on this site are to documents in Adobe Acrobat Reader format (*.pdf) or Microsoft Word (*.doc), unless otherwise noted.

Torts I Syllabus, v. 1.6

Past Torts Exams

Torts Final Exam - Spring 2007

Torts Final Exam - Fall 2008

Torts Final Exam Sample Answers - Fall 2008

NOTE: The above are sample answers.  They are actual student answers that scored very highly on the exam.  They are NOT model answers prepared by me.  As a consequence, there could be text in the answers that is incorrect and for which the student received no points.  No student answer can be perfect.

Casebook

D.B. Dobbs and P.T. Hayden, TORTS AND COMPENSATION: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INJURY (Thomson/West: 5th ed. 2005)—do NOT purchase the newest 6th edition.

Other Materials

These are not required readings, but are useful as alternative sources of information on tort law should you want to review additional information on material we are covering in class:

Mini-Hornbooks:

John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine, & M. Stuart Madden, UNDERSTANDING TORTS (LexisNexis: 3d ed. 2007 or the 2d ed. 2000)

Marshall S. Shapo, PRINCIPLES OF TORT LAW (Thomson/West: 2d ed. 2003)

Hornbooks:

W. Page Keeton, Dan B. Dobbs, Robert E. Keeton, & David G. Owen, PROSSER AND KEETON ON TORTS (West Group: 5th ed. 1984)

Dan B. Dobbs, THE LAW OF TORTS (West Group: 2000)

The Restatements:

American Law Institute, THE RESTATEMENT (2d) OF TORTS (1965)

American Law Institute, THE RESTATEMENT (3d) OF TORTS: PHYSICAL HARMS (April 2005 Draft)

These Restatements are available through your Westlaw account.

Supplemental Reading

Pearson

Kremen

CompuServe

Restatement on False Imprisonment, Conversion, and Trespass to Chattels

Self-Defense Handout

Restatement and Cal Evid Code on Negligence Per Se

Class Handouts

[These links will go live right before the relevant class]