Duncan and Turner's Torts: A Contemporary Approach By Meredith Duncan and Ronald Turner ISBN 978-0-31419-114-4 Page Proofs ABOUT THE BOOK This casebook is a user-friendly text organized to facilitate the study of law in the first year of law school. The text begins with an overview of the subject, being sure to point out distinctions between tort law and other types of law. It then covers intentional torts, negligence actions, and strict liability. The book concludes with materials on Products Liability, Defamation, and Privacy actions. The book includes classic cases as well as cases that are modern, interesting, and relevant to today’s students. Examples from the Restatement are interspersed throughout. The text is rich in the competing policy issues that drive and shape current tort law. The book also contains many problems and hypotheticals. As part of the Interactive Casebook Series, the text is available to students in both a hardbound and an electronic format. The electronic version is full of “hot links” that will take students wanting more to items of interest. Upon publication complimentary copies are sent to our current list of professors teaching in the associated subject area.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Meredith Duncan MDuncan@central.uh.edu		Professor Duncan joined the University of Houston Law Center faculty in 1998. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University and earned her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1993. Upon graduation from the Law Center, she clerked for the Honorable Edith H. Jones, Judge for the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. She was an associate at Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. prior to returning to clerk permanently for Judge Jones. Professor Duncan's areas of expertise include legal ethics, criminal law, and torts. Learn more about Meredith Duncan
Ronald Turner RTurner@central.uh.edu		Professor Turner graduated magna cum laude from Wilberforce University and received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Turner joined the University of Houston Law Center faculty in 1998. Before joining the Law Center, he served as a labor-management relations examiner with the National Labor Relations Board, practiced law in Chicago, and taught at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Turner's primary areas of expertise are in the areas of labor, employment, and constitutional law. He teaches employment discrimination, labor law, torts, constitutional law, and a course on HIV/AIDS and the law. A former research associate at the Industrial Research Unit at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Professor Turner also serves as a contributing editor for the AIDS & Public Policy Journal. His numerous publications include books and articles on labor and employment law issues, AIDS, and hate speech. Professor Turner was also a Visiting Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law and was a Visiting Professor of History at Rice University. Learn more about Ronald Turner