TORTS II: ADDITIONAL TOPICS AND ADVANCED INQUIRIES (3) (TRT500)

Professors Arthur Leonard, Lawrence Levine, Peter Zablotsky

Study of various substantive areas of tort liability, including product liability of manufacturers, suppliers, and contractors, with emphasis on developing concepts and theories of liability and defenses; other developing areas of strict liability; fraud and innocent and negligent misrepresentation, including theories of recovery, ambit of responsibility and defenses; libel and slander, including theories of recovery and common law and constitutional privileges; invasion of privacy, including publicity given to private life, placing persons in a false light, intrusion upon seclusion, appropriation of name or likeness and defenses; and liability resulting from interference with business and other advantageous economic relations.