Tort Law in America

G. Edward White is Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School and author of The American Judicial Tradition.

Introduction
1: The Intellectual Origins of Torts in America
2: The Impact of Legal Science on Tort Law, 1880-1910
3: The Impact of Realism on Tort Law, 1910-1945
4: The Twentieth-Century Judge as Torts Theorist: Cardozo
5: William Prosser, Consensus Thought, and the Nature of Tort Law, 1945-1970
6: The Twentieth-Century Judge as Torts Theorist: Traynor
7: The 1970s: Neoconceptualism and the Future of Tort Law
8: The Unexpected Persistence of Negligence, 1980-2000
9: Entering the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index