First Year - Torts - Study Guides for Law Student Success - LibGuides at University of Maine School of Law

The following is a curated list of study aids available on our subscription platforms. This list is not exhaustive, so we encourage you to explore each study aid database for more options. These resources are designed to complement your coursework and enhance your exam preparation.

Tort titles available in Aspen Study Aids include:

Tort Law: In Other Words Video Series
Tort Law: In Other Words Audio Series
Inside Torts: What Matters and Why
Jumpstart Torts: Reading and Understanding Torts Cases
Friedman's Practice Series for Torts, Second Edition
Emanuel Law Outlines for Torts, Tenth Edition
Glannon Guide to Torts, Fourth Edition
Emanuel Crunch Time for Torts, Fifth Edition
Examples & Explanations for The Law of Torts, Sixth Edition

Many more titles can be found on West Academic. Go to the MYLaw Portal and West Academic is available under Maine Law Quick Links. Torts study guides include:

High Court Cases Summaries, Torts (Keyed to Prosser, Wade, Schwartz, Kelly, and Partlett, 14th)
Publication Date: 2020
This title contains briefs for each major case in Prosser, Wade, Schwartz, Kelly, and Partlett's casebook on Torts. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Sum and Substance Audio on Torts
Publication Date: 2019
While commuting or exercising learn about battery; assault; false imprisonment; intentional infliction of emotional distress; defense of self, others, property; recapture of chattel, trespass to land, trespass to chattel, conversion, public/private necessity, consent; negligence: duty, breach, proximate cause, joint tortfeasers; damages: nominal, punitive, and compensatory; surviving personal injury actions; wrongful death, wrongful birth/life, strict liability, affirmative defense to negligence with economic advantage, nuisance, misuse of judicial process, products liability, defamation and related torts, invasions of privacy. Information useful to preparing and pressing your case.
Torts in a Nutshell
Publication Date: 2020
A clear, concise, current, and authoritative explanation of all of the most important U.S. tort law doctrines, including those covered in first-year torts courses in law schools. Coverage includes tort law origins and objectives; causation; strict liability; negligence liability and defenses; intentional tort liability and defenses; special liability rules (premises liability, products liability, employers, etc.); damages; tort and contract; immunities; wrongful death and survival; defamation; privacy; misrepresentation.

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