Tomorrow's Torts: Advanced Comparative Perspectives

With a focus strongly on invasion of dignitary interests and/or rights, the book stresses the dynamic nature of tort law and its capacity to respond to social change in a variety of ways, and invites students to consider the mechanisms by which this may happen, including interaction with legislation and international conventions.

Tomorrow's Torts aims to:

• give students an opportunity to explore topics which are not covered in basic Torts courses, such as defamation
• take an in depth look at important areas like negligence in specific contexts, such as medical malpractice
• examine emerging torts or novel applications for existing torts, such as in the areas of privacy, sexual injury including harassment and stalking
• explore toxic torts including tobacco litigation and various pharmaceutical/therapeutic products which have been the subject of mass tort claims or class actions.

Students are encouraged to adopt a creative, comparative and critical perspective, and to think about how the law of torts might look in the future, as well as to master the current law. Tomorrow's Torts is a collection of commentary and materials suitable for use in upper level undergraduate or postgraduate Law courses, drawn from Canada, the UK, New Zealand, USA, Australia and other jurisdictions.