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Underwood’s Tort Law: Principles in Practice offers a user-friendly introduction to first-year Torts students in a refreshing, thought-provoking balance of theory and practice. 

Tort Law: Principles in Practice is an approachable and engaging casebook, with a variety of pedagogical features and tools to examine tort law doctrine, principles, and rules and their application in practice. Introductory text for each chapter, subsection, and case frames the issues under discussion, aiding student comprehension. Features include text boxes and photographs, succinct problems for class discussion, sample pattern jury instructions, checklists, and end-of-chapter essay questions. 

New to the Fourth Edition: 

● New key cases (e.g., a case analyzing when vicarious liability might attach to an employee’s intentional misconduct, a topic of timely importance given the unfortunate circumstances of clergy abuse; case law debating to what extent design defect strict product liability should consider hindsight evidence of the product’s inherent dangers, a subject of ongoing controversy; and the classic case U.S. v. Carroll Towing where Judge Hand first employed his classic formula for negligence.) 

● Revised notes and more problems to enhance usability and readability. 

● Continued focus on making this book as useful as possible for the schools and professors who are increasingly focused on preparing students for practice. 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

● A blending of both old classics and modern relevant cases 

● Easy to follow organization with clear topic headings 

● Useful but concise text to introduce the larger picture context for each section and case 

● Focused, limited notes following each case to engage the students 

● Numerous strategic problems within each section to stimulate further thinking 

● Engaging text boxes and pictures to capture the students’ imagination 

● Sample pattern jury instructions throughout the book to illustrate courts’ efforts to describe the law to jurors 

● Checklists to demonstrate proper analytical approaches to the issues 

● Helpful perspective notes at the end of each major section to summarize and highlight key facets of the materials 

● Practice end-of-chapter essays to permit students to practice “pulling it all together”