Contribution to Book
Missouri (Negligence: Purpose, Elements & Evidence: The Role of Foreseeability in the Law of Each State)
Negligence: Purpose, Elements & Evidence: The Role of Foreseeability in the Law of Each State
(2018)
Abstract
Foreseeability is a foundational concept of American Tort jurisprudence. The publication of the Restatement (Third) of Torts, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm (2010/2012) has rekindled the interest and importance of foreseeability in negligence law. NEGLIGENCE PURPOSE, ELEMENTS, AND EVIDENCE: THE ROLE OF FORESEEABILITY IN THE LAW OF EACH STATE serves three main purposes. The first goal is to provide a brief refresher in basic tort law. The second is a basic research tool for the bench and the bar. And the third, and last purpose of this tome is to observe the role of foreseeability in each state and illustrate that the attempts of the Restatement (Third) of Torts, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm to remove foreseeability from the analyses of duty and proximate cause are out-of-step with the practical application of tort law in the vast majority of jurisdictions. The authors include practicing attorneys, law professors, and academic law librarians from throughout the country. This book follows the “sentence/citation format,” which removes author opinion and commentary and focuses on the Black Letter Law from every state on foreseeability.
Keywords
- Missouri,
- Torts,
- Negligence,
- Foreseeability
Publication Date
Fall September 1, 2018
Editor
Lee Peoples, Gregg Luther, Vicki Lawrence MacDougall
Publisher
Balloon Press
Citation Information
Lee Peoples. "Missouri (Negligence: Purpose, Elements & Evidence: The Role of Foreseeability in the Law of Each State)" Negligence: Purpose, Elements & Evidence: The Role of Foreseeability in the Law of Each State (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lee_peoples/36/