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Title: Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts by W. Page Keeton, Dan B. Dobbs, Robert E. Keeton, David G. Owen, William Lloyd Prosser ISBN: 0314092560 Publisher: West Wadsworth Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25
Rating: 5
Summary: P&K is a classic
Comment: I used P&K to supplement my casebook and class notes, and it guided me to an A- in torts. It's a great tool and a great read. However, it does have certain limitations: the final edition was published in the late 80s, so it does not provide much guidance on product liability, infliction of emotional distress and other emerging areas of tort law.
P&K gives you something that year 1 of law school sorely lacks: a context for the fragments in your case book. Its treatment of Palsgraf is particularly beautiful.
And since Prosser so strongly influenced tort law, you can be confident that you are getting good information. Some of my classmates used commercial outlines and they often worried about whether they could trust the material. No such problems with P&K; it was on the money all the time. And when there was a contradiction between P&K and my textbook, I was able to go to my professor and ask her about it. Try doing that with a commercial outline.
P&K is not merely fine reference tool; it is a genuine work of literature. I love it, and I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic text . . .
Comment: . . . and one you should probably acquire for your law library at some point; its explanations are clear and lucid, and it's probably the single most-cited work on torts apart from the Restatement (Second). However, if you're a One-L looking for a study aid, there are a couple of things you should be aware of.
First of all, the most recent edition of this text dates from 1984. That means quite a bit of it is at least slightly out of date, and some of it is massively so (particularly in the field of products liability). For a more up-to-date hornbook, consider Dobbs. (I bought and used both.)
Second, when your torts professor talks about "black-letter law," s/he's not talking about this hornbook or any other; s/he's usually talking about the Restatement (Second) of Torts (or, in products liability, the Restatement (Third)). As much as I like hornbooks (and I am emphatically not a fan of the "casebook" approach), I have to say that if you want to get _one_ text to supplement your casebook, you should pick up _A Concise Restatement of Torts_ from the American Law Institute. And, ideally, you should memorize large portions of it.
Of course, you can do what I did: buy all three. It's a great investment, and it will pay off in your studies; Prosser and Keeton provide much helpful discussion of points that Dobbs treats more briefly, and the Concise Restatement is much easier to understand once you've digested the hornbook(s).
At any rate, this _is_ a classic text and you shouldn't go without it for any longer than necessary. Just be aware of what you're buying and set your priorities accordingly.
Rating: 4
Summary: overall helpful
Comment: pretty helpful book, as a basic study aid, worth the price. i liked it.
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Title: The Law of Contracts (Hornbook Series, 4th Edition) by John D. Calamari, Joseph M. Perillo ISBN: 0314211675 Publisher: West Wadsworth Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Criminal Law (Hornbook Series) by Wayne R. Lafave ISBN: 031424817X Publisher: West Wadsworth Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Civil Procedure (Hornbook Series) by Jack H. Friedenthal, Mary Kay Kane, Arthur Raphael Miller ISBN: 0314233636 Publisher: West Wadsworth Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Contracts by E. Allan Farnsworth ISBN: 0735501440 Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $43.00 |
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Title: Torts: Cases and Materials, 10th Edition (Posser, Wade and Schwartz) by Victor E. Schwartz, Kathryn Kelly, David F. Partlett ISBN: 1566629551 Publisher: Foundation Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $86.00 |
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