Torts: Cases & Context
My free, open-access, Creative Commons–licensed casebook combines judicial opinions, explanatory text, and problems. The casebook site offers the published 2.1 edition and earlier versions; my 2026 course materials also link to the newer Conic 3.β classroom edition.
Casebook homepage
Find Volume One and Volume Two, PDF and DOCX downloads, licensing information, and version history.
2026 classroom edition (3.β)
Links to the Conic 3.β volumes and supplemental readings, maintained on the 2026 course assignment page.
Torts courses
Course webpages with syllabi, assignments, readings, and other materials, organized by year.
Videos & audio
Torts videos on YouTube
Video explanations, examples, and visits to places connected with tort law. This link searches YouTube for my torts videos.
Audio and older media resources
The original teaching-materials page includes a link to my audio lectures and a selection of presentation materials.
Past exams & practice
Exam Archive
Released Torts examinations and practice questions from past years, including multiple-choice and essay materials.
Additional study materials
Older classwide outlines and other teaching resources remain available through the original materials page.
Other teaching materials
Selected flowcharts, slide decks, mindmaps, litigation documents, and group outlines are archived on the earlier Torts materials page.
- Flowcharts and mindmap — torts overview, lawsuit anatomy, defamation
- Slideshows — negligence, causation, defamation, privacy, and more
- Anderson v. Cryovac documents — litigation papers and trial plans
- Student group outlines — historical classwide “wypadkis”
Tort-law scholarship
Selected articles addressing negligence, catastrophic risks, tort remedies, and related questions.
76 Tennessee Law Review 819 (2009). A tort-law analysis of catastrophic risk, scientific uncertainty, and injunctive relief.
2012 Cardozo Law Review de novo 318 (2012). On the structure of negligence doctrine and its elusive additional dimension.
48 Florida State University Law Review 333 (2021). Courts, uncertain risks, and potentially harmful scientific experimentation.
2016 University of Illinois Law Review 527 (2016). Regulatory responses to experimental risks.
111 Northwestern University Law Review 891 (2017). A related study of personality rights and civil liability.
For publication links and the complete bibliography, visit my homepage.