JumpStart is a new study aid series covering the first-year course areas. Each title is a short book, roughly 170 pages, that addresses a problem students experience as they navigate their first year courses. Often first year students are expected to learn substantive law by reading judicial opinions without a framework or process to help them comprehend what they are reading. The JumpStart series supplies the context and prepares students to apply the rules in a litigation context. Titles in the series can be used as a general introduction to law school or as an introduction to torts. The books are most useful early in the first semester as well as in orientation courses or as summer reading for students entering their first year of law school. The series will appeal to academic success/support coordinators as well as the course-area professors. Ross Sandler is the series editor. His JumpStart: Torts is the first title in the series. JumpStart: Torts offers a detailed step-by-step approach to the stages of litigation, beginning with stating a theory of the case, moving through determining facts and making motions to receiving the holding of the case. Legal reasoning and the litigation process are taught via numerous judicial opinions with full analysis of each. Judicial opinions and analyses are made comprehensible without in-class explanation in a straightforward, clear, and informal writing style. Class-tested for success, JumpStart: Torts features pedagogical elements that support learning and facilitate use. As with each book in the series, the opening chapter provides a glossary of the terms, idioms, and procedures encountered in reading cases in tort law. Many judicial opinions are accompanied by an artist-drawn "cartoon" that illustrates the conflict or issue of the case. Short, easy-to-read opinions focus on ordinary situations with simple fact patterns that apply settled rules of law and principles. The book ends with a Practice Exam: a clear explanation of how to approach the typical torts essay exam question as well as insight into how professors grade exams. The chapter ends with a practice essay question. Two sample answers are included: a strong answer and a weaker answer. Each answer includes notes that point out where students did well and where they could improve their answers. Features: Detailed step-by-step approach to the stages of litigation begins by stating a theory of the case moves through determining fact and making motions to receiving the holding of the case Illustrates legal reasoning and the litigation process teaches through numerous judicial opinions with analysis Judicial opinions and analyses comprehensible without in-class explanation Straightforward, clear, informal style Class-tested material Pedagogical features Opening chapter glossary of the terms, idioms, and procedures encountered in reading cases

Jumpstart Criminal Law explores the context in which criminal statutes are drafted and enacted and in which criminal trials and appeals take place by considering the relationship between state and federal criminal prosecutions and trials; the difference between criminal offenses and defenses in different jurisdictions; the steps in the criminal justice process; the separate roles of judge and jury in criminal cases, and their significance; "element analysis" in criminal cases and with criminal statutes; the nature of the different types of criminal law defenses; criminal defense ethics; how, when, and why conduct is criminalized; and the role of "mens rea" and "actus reus" in criminal law. Legal reasoning and the criminal justice process are taught through numerous judicial opinions with analysis, presented in a straightforward and informal writing style comprehensible without in-class explanation. Pedagogical features support learning, such as a chapter with a glossary of the terms, idioms, and procedures encountered in reading cases in criminal law. Many judicial opinions are illustrated by an artist-drawn "cartoon" The cases do not have complex fact patterns, but rather, are short and easy to read, and apply common rules and principles of law. Helpful exam prep combines examples of issue-spotting, essay, and multiple-choice questions with tips on how to carefully read criminal law exam questions. Features: explores the context in which criminal statutes are drafted and enacted and in which criminal trials and appeals take place the relationship between state and federal criminal prosecutions and trials the difference between criminal offenses and defenses in different jurisdictions the steps in the criminal justice process the separate roles of judge and jury in criminal cases "element analysis" in criminal cases and with criminal statutes the nature of various types of criminal law defenses criminal defense ethics how, when, and why conduct is criminalized the role of "mens rea" and "actus reus" in criminal law legal reasoning and criminal justice process taught via judicial opinions with analysis judicial opinions and analyses comprehensible without in-class explanation straightforward and informal writing style pedagogical features glossary of terms, idioms, and procedures encountered in reading cases line art: artist-drawn "cartoons" illustrate many judicial opinions judicial opinions: short and easy to read, applying common rules of law exam prep help examples of issue-spotting, essay, and multiple-choice questions tips on how to carefully read criminal law exam questions

Origins and Objectives of Tort Liability; Cause in Fact; Strict Liability; Liability for Negligent Conduct: Standards of Conduct, Risks and Reasonable Persons, Sources of Standards of Conduct, Proof of Negligence, Proximate Cause, Duty; Defenses to Negligence Liability; Liability for Intentional Misconduct: Intent, Battery, Assault, False Imprisonment, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Trespass; Defenses to Liability for Intentional Misconduct; Owners and Occupiers of Land; Products Liability; Employers, Employees and Contractors; Automobiles; Medical and Other Professional Negligence; Nuisance; Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress; Prenatal Harm; Alcoholic Beverages; Interference With Federal Constitutional Rights; Damages for Physical Harm: Compensatory Damages, Consequential Damages, Punitive Damages, Allocation Among Tortfeasors; Tort and Contract; Immunities; Survival and Wrongful Death; Defamation; Privacy; Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure.

"Casebook with problems for law school students enrolled in Advanced Torts or Business Torts courses"--

'Nutshells' are a series of books presenting the essentials of law in clear, straightforward language. They aim to offer concise, up-to-date accounts of the law - especially those topics favoured by examiners. This text covers the law of tort.

"A litigator's guide to current business torts law, this book provides a concise review of - or introduction to - the important issues, general rules, and major exceptions to the rules in each of the major business torts subjects areas, along with practical guidance through the situations you are likely to encounter in assessing, preparing and presenting a case."--BOOK JACKET.