Tort Law Hornbook Session 3 (Part 2) of 3: Expanding Horizons in Tort Law

This legal decision explains tort law, focusing on nuisance, economic torts, and defenses to tort claims. It details the different types of nuisance (public and private), their remedies (damages, injunctions, abatement), and how nuisance law is adapting to modern issues like climate change and digital pollution. The text also covers various economic torts such as interference with contracts, fraud, and misrepresentation, and how these torts are evolving in the digital age. Finally, it discusses common and emerging defenses to tort claims, including consent, self-defense, necessity, and statutory privileges, and explores emerging issues in tort law related to technological advances, environmental torts, and public health crises.