First Year: Tort Law (0102) (LAW104H1S)

Tort law is the law governing private wrongs, or invasions of one person’s legal rights by another.  This course focuses on the reasoning that judges have used, and continue to use, in thinking about different kinds of torts.  We will spend most of our time on negligence law but will also discuss some intentional torts and some strict liability torts.  We will also read excerpts from The Measure of Injury, a book by American legal theorists Martha Chamallas and Jennifer Wriggins.  This book offers a social justice-based critique of tort law and raises important questions about the interests and the people whom tort law fails to protect.