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Key informationCourse Polling:Classroom Notes and Presentations:Mindmap of torts [.html] (Updated 8/30/2022)
This is the webpage version, which is easy to look at using your web browser.
Mindmap of torts mindmap file [.mm] [right click to download] (Updated 8/30/2022)
This [.mm] mindmap file can be viewed with free/open-source FreeMind software, which is what I used in class. You can also try free/open-source Freeplane software, which is newer, but there are some file compatibility issues -- at least formatting/cosmetic issues, and possibly other issues, although I'm not sure.
Here's the same exercise done in previous years ...
Supplementary readings for Torts:Anderson v. Cryovac documents nos. 1-6 (summary judgment papers, order, and trial plans):
Book assignments
There is one traditional get-it-from-a-bookseller book you need for the course. Get your own physical, printed copy of this:
Four Trials by John Edwards, with John Auchard
Published: 2004, Simon & Schuster ISBN-10: 0743272048 ISBN-13: 978-0743272049
The main casebook for the course is an open-source/open-access (a/k/a "OER") book. It is in two volumes:
These volumes are available for free download in PDF and DOCX formats. To make sure you are looking at the right edition/revision, look for the green safety cone on the cover.
You have lots of options in terms of how you might access the books:
Note that from time to time, the manuscript is updated to fix minor typos. These fixes don't affect pagination or the usability of the book. (I keep a list of these fixes here.)
One thing to keep in mind: Assuming we have a normal exam (i.e., putting aside potential covid pandemic contingencies), then you will want to have a printed copy by the end of the semester to use on the exam. So you might choose to start the semester with a printed copy (which you might mark-up and highlight). But you might instead choose to wait until the end of the semester to print out a copy (which perhaps you will have marked-up electronically over the semester). That's up to you.
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