Torts: Doctrine and Process - 2025-26th Edition - Donald H. Beskind

Torts: Doctrine and Process 2025-26th Edition Donald H. Beskind ISBN 9781531034818

There are numerous torts textbooks available, each reflecting its authors’ pedagogical goals and views of what students need to succeed. This textbook was deliberately designed around three core objectives that together provide a rigorous, practice-oriented foundation for first-year law students.

First, the book is intended to support a complete first-year torts course at a high level of intellectual and analytical rigor. The cases and materials are structured primarily for extraction learning: doctrinal context is made clear, but students are expected—much as they would be in legal practice—to derive governing rules, principles, and limitations through close reading and careful analysis rather than through extensive editorial exposition.

Second, the book prepares students to confront and litigate complex torts issues in contemporary legal settings. Its approach is fundamentally doctrinal, ensuring a strong command of substantive law. Where alternative perspectives—normative, economic, philosophical, or theoretical—are introduced, they are presented as tools for critical evaluation, prompting students to assess their usefulness and relevance within the existing doctrinal framework rather than as substitutes for it.

Third, the materials emphasize the dynamic relationship between the “black-letter” law of torts, the rules of civil procedure, and the strategic decisions lawyers must make in real litigation. Students are encouraged to understand tort law not in isolation, but as it operates in practice—at the intersection of substantive rules, procedural constraints, and the judgment calls required to transform facts and law into effective advocacy.

By integrating these three objectives, this book offers a cohesive and demanding learning experience that equips students with a deep understanding of tort doctrine, strong analytical skills, and a practical appreciation of how tort law functions in the real world.

Torts: Doctrine and Process 2025-26th Edition Donald H. Beskind ISBN 9781531034818, 978-1531034818 & 9781531034832

Authors:
Donald H. Beskind
Doriane Lambelet Coleman