This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader
to understand its various social functions and evaluate its
effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in
particular, on how tort law can guide people's behaviour, and the
political and social environments within which it operates. It also
provides the reader with a wealth of detail about the ideas and values
that underlie tort 'doctrine'-tort law's rules and principles, and the
way those rules and principles operate in practice. The book is an
accessible introduction to tort law that will provide students, scholars
and practitioners alike with a fresh and engaging view of the subject.
'In this masterful and engaging survey, Peter Cane provides an array of
illuminating perspectives on the law of torts, laying bare its nature,
structure and functions, as well as its legal, social and political
context.'
Andrew Robertson, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School