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Removing Emotional Harm From The Core Of Tort Law, Martha Chamallas
Removing Emotional Harm From The Core Of Tort Law, Martha Chamallas
Vanderbilt Law Review
My commentary is directed to one important feature of the new Restatement (Third) of Torts: General Principles (Discussion Draft) ("Discussion Draft")-the decision to remove liability for emotional harm from the core of tort law. As a Torts professor, I am very attracted to the Discussion Draft because to a large extent it tracks the way I structure and teach torts to first year students. It reflects what Professors Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson describe as the pedagogical canon in torts, by highlighting those topics and subtopics that most professors emphasize in their scaled- down Torts course and including the material …