Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (American Casebook Series)

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Summary: Easy and Interesting
Review: I am astounded at the previous reviews of this case book. The typos, though present, do nothing to detract from it's purpose - to deliver brief and interesting cases that explain torts in a sensible and logical order.
This book is a pleasure to read, and it CERTAINLY is not diffcult to understand. It is in fact the clearest and most vibrant law text I've encountered. Students having trouble finding the majority opinion need to read the whole case; those not understanding the order of the tort law presentation need to read the entire book.

Rating:
Summary: Easy and Interesting
Review: I concur with my fellow reviewers that this Casebook contains more typos and grammaticla errors than a first-grader's book-report!! If your Torts prof is excellent (and mine was) such editorial problems won't keep you from getting a good grade. But, to be sure, buy the Examples and Explanations by Glannon and a good commercial outline to supplement this POOR casebook! Finally, I wholeheartedly agree with one of the reviewers who indicated that this casebook is VERY much biased towards the plaintiff's bar and against defendents, businesses, or "the MAN".

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Summary: Editorial confusion
Review: I feel really sorry for the student assistants that got credit in the front of Dobb's book for their careful editing. This book has more typos in it than any thing I have ever seen. And if Torts law was not hard enough to understand, having to work within Dobbs sorry typos makes it that much harder. Content wise, the book just does not lay out Torts in any logical order. It is just too hard from this book to pull out what the rule is and whether a case represents the majority view or a minority. Defense arguments against recovery tend to get far less coverage than the plaintiff viewpoint: That much is obvious from the books' subtitle. Overall, it is required that you use a study supplement with this book. I recommend "Understanding Torts" by Larry Levine, et al. Don't buy this book unless some sadistic professor is forcing you too.

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Summary: Very difficult to understand
Review: If you must use this book for class, save yourself a lot of headache and get Emanuel's Outline or flashcards on the subject or Gilbert's Outline. This book is very difficult reading compared to my other other law books. Law professors should really stay away from it.

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Summary: Very difficult to understand
Review: If you must use this book for class, save yourself a lot of headache and get Emanuel's Outline or flashcards on the subject or Gilbert's Outline. This book is very difficult reading compared to my other other law books. Law professors should really stay away from it.

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Summary: The typos kind of annoy, but the book is informative
Review: Like many students in law school I had to read this book for my Torts class. Our professor did an excellent job with a fairly mediocre book by explaining the concepts and cases at length (and thus eliminating the need for me to go and buy supplemental materials). There are sections of the book that you can gloss over (and this is precisely what our professor had us do) unless you really need to know more about tort wars or statutes of limitations etc. This book is something of a necessary evil for learning torts, but as a reference book it doesn't really cut it. If you want a more clear and concise book that you can read or peruse or use as a reference then this is not the book for you. It's strictly a textbook, but one that does the job. It could have been done better and without the typos (surely a computer spellchecker could have been used as this is the 21st century for crying out loud!). I'll be selling my book back this coming semester simply because I don't think there is anything I need from this book that I can't get elsewhere and for the record I actually enjoyed learning about torts. I would thank my excellent professor more than this book though.

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Summary: The typos kind of annoy, but the book is informative
Review: Like many students in law school I had to read this book for my Torts class. Our professor did an excellent job with a fairly mediocre book by explaining the concepts and cases at length (and thus eliminating the need for me to go and buy supplemental materials). There are sections of the book that you can gloss over (and this is precisely what our professor had us do) unless you really need to know more about tort wars or statutes of limitations etc. This book is something of a necessary evil for learning torts, but as a reference book it doesn't really cut it. If you want a more clear and concise book that you can read or peruse or use as a reference then this is not the book for you. It's strictly a textbook, but one that does the job. It could have been done better and without the typos (surely a computer spellchecker could have been used as this is the 21st century for crying out loud!). I'll be selling my book back this coming semester simply because I don't think there is anything I need from this book that I can't get elsewhere and for the record I actually enjoyed learning about torts. I would thank my excellent professor more than this book though.

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Summary: Awful, awful book
Review: This book really is badly edited. There are entire pages that lack punctuation. It's difficult enough to master torts without struggling through the basic grammar. The book also is very case heavy and explanation light. Those reading it had better hope for an excellent torts prof!