Tort Law

Keith N. Hylton is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a Professor of Law at Boston University specializing in tort law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, and labor law. His latest book, a utilitarian defense of the intellectual property laws, is Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas (2013).

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Policy and tort law; 3. Evolution of tort law; 4. Intentional torts; 5. Theoretical foundations of strict liability; 6. The reasonable person; 7. Customs, statutes, and the reasonable person; 8. Inferring negligence; 9. Contributory negligence and assumption of risk; 10. Contributory negligence, comparative negligence, and incentives for care; 11. Joint and several liability and vicarious liability; 12. Factual causation; 13. Proximate cause; 14. Duty to rescue and special relationships; 15. Strict liability: conversion, abnormally dangerous activities, and nuisance; 16. Defamation; 17. Products liability; 18. Damages.