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Black Letter Outline on Torts

6th Edition
Edward J. Kionka | Jamie R. Abrams | Angi Porter
ISBN: 9781685617653
Subject: Torts
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 550
Copyright: 2025 | Status: Accepting Pre-Orders

Black Letter Outlines are designed to help law students and novice lawyers state clear legal rules, describe underlying tort principles, and apply those rules and principles to client representations and other real-world scenarios. Readers can use Black Letter Outlines as a study aid when preparing for classes, as a subject-matter review when studying for course or bar examinations, and as a convenient and easily-navigable refresher for the novice lawyer. Black Letter Outlines are written by experienced law school professors who are recognized national authorities in their subject area. New authors Abrams and Porter bring a niche expertise that combines their years of tort law practice experience with their classroom teaching experience and their added lenses of bar exam readiness instruction and inclusive pedagogy expertise. This Torts Outline particularly helps students see the major tort causes of action, developments and trajectory shifts in the field, and representative practice problems. It is a useful tool in helping aspiring Torts mavens at once see the big picture of Torts while also refining their precision in stating its rules and validating their knowledge by measuring content acquisition.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Black Letter Outlines
Publication Date: 07/31/2025

Edward J. Kionka, Southern Illinois University School of Law

Jamie R. Abrams, American University Washington College of Law

Angi Porter, American University Washington College of Law

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Readers can expect the following enhancements in this new edition:

  • New guidance about how to effectively engage with the book.
  • Revised structure for more descriptive and navigable organization.
  • Accessible language to promote inclusive learning.
  • Focus on key concepts that align with bar exam and course coverage shifts.
  • Negligence content consolidated structurally to strengthen its doctrinal coherence.
  • Modernized hypotheticals and practice problems reflecting the multitude of client representations that tort lawyers face.
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