Torts I
Fall 2024
Professor H. Tomas Gomez-Arostegui
Syllabus
Old Exams
Torts Fall 2008
Sample Answers
NOTE: The above sample answers are actual student answers and thus some of what appears within them is incorrect. Additionally, the 2007 and 2008 exams did not have word limits, which I always use nowadays. So don’t be shocked when you see that some of the sample answers are super long. They could not be today.
Casebook for Fall 2024
Dobbs, Hayden & Bublick, Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (9th ed. 2022, Standard Edition)—ISBN 9781684675906 (CasebookPlus Hardcover) or ISBN 9781647089474 (CasebookPlus eBook). Both CasebookPlus formats (when purchased new) include digital access to 408 multiple-choice questions and other types of questions. But you are not required to purchase access to those digital resources. In other words, you can purchase a pure eBook or hardcover without those resources. But do not purchase the Concise Edition or a prior edition, as they are not interchangeable.
Assigned Supplemental Reading (these are things you need to read before the appointed class):
Class 3: Restatement on False Imprisonment and Trespass to Chattels
Class Handouts (these are things you will need to read at some point, but not necessarily before the appointed class; we will discuss these during the appointed class):
Class 1 Handout PDF DOC Introduction
Class 2 Handout PDF DOC Battery
Class 3 Handout #1 PDF DOC Intentional Torts—Hypotheticals
Class 3 Handout #2 PDF DOC Intentional Torts—Trespass to Land
Class 4 Handout #1 PDF DOC Self Defense
Class 4 Handout #2 PDF DOC Affirmative Defenses
Class 5 Handout PDF DOC Negligence Prima Facie Case
Class 6 Handout PDF DOC Negligence Per Se
Class 8 Handout #1 PDF DOC Proving Breach
Class 8 Handout #2 PDF only
Class 9 Handout PDF DOC Res Ipsa Loquitur
Class 10 Handout PDF DOC Cause in Fact
Class 12 Handout PDF Negligence Review Hypo
Class 14 Handout PDF DOC Assumption of Risk
Class 15 Handout PDF DOC Statute of Limitations
Class 16 Handout PDF DOC Premises Liability—Land Possessors
Class 17 Handout PDF DOC Premises Liability—Lessors + Nonfeasance
Class 18 Handout PDF DOC No Duty to Protect from 3d Persons
Class 19 Handout
PDF
DOC Informed Consent
Class 20 Handout PDF DOC Emotional Distress
Class 22 Handout PDF DOC Strict Liability
Class 23 Handout PDF DOC Defamation
Class 24 Handout PDF DOC Vicarious Liability
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