Massachusetts School of Law

Resources in Torts, Products Liability, Medical Malpractice, and Personal Injury Law

GENERAL TORT RESOURCES

Internet Resources

• CALI Torts Lessons
• Cornell LII: U.S.
  Torts Law
  • Provides an overview of torts law with links to federal and state laws.
• Cornell LII: Insurance Law
• ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS)
  • ABA section website containing information on meetings, publications, links and other practice information.
• FindLaw: Injury and Tort Law
  • Gateway site to tort law information on the web.
• Torts – JURIST: The Law Professors’ Network
  • Gateway site to torts information on the web, includes links to articles, course websites
    cases, state laws and other information.
• American Tort Reform Association
  • Consumer introduction to real estate from the self-help legal publisher Nolo Press. Includes
    sections on Buying a House, Selling a House, and Problems with Neighbors.
• American Association for Justice
  • Trial lawyers’ website containing information on meetings, publications, links and other practice information.

Course Reserve Materials

• Liability In Medicine And Public Health, Marcia Boumil, David J. Sharpe
• Mass Tort Litigation Cases and Materials.  Linda S. Mullenix.  American Casebook Series.
• The Law of Torts Examples and Explanations.  Joseph W. Glannon.  Little, Brown and Company.
• Understanding Torts.  John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine, M. Stuart Madden.  Legal Text Series.
• Prosser, Wade and Schwartz’s Torts Cases and Materials, 12th Edition.  John W. Wade, Victor E.
  Schwartz, Kathryn Kelly, David F. Partlett.  University Casebook Series.
• A Concise Restatement of Torts.  The American Law Institute.
• The Law of Torts Practitioner Treatise Series.  Volume 1 & 2.  Dan. B. Dobbs.  West Group.
• Torts:  Breast Implants.  Martin.

Hornbooks and Nutshells

• Torts in a Nutshell.  Edward J. Kionka.  On reserve.
• Toxic Torts in a Nutshell.  Jean Macchiaroli Eggen. On reserve.
• The Law of Torts. Prosser & Keeton 5th Ed.  West Hornbook Series.  On reserve.

Practice Materials

• Massachusetts Premises Liability. MCLE. On reserve.
• Massachusetts Torts Law Manual. MCLE. On reserve.
• Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Torts. MCLE. On reserve.
• Mass. Practice. Torts. Vols. 37 and 37A. On reserve.
• MCLE Motor Vehicle Offenses.  On reserve.

PRODUCTS LIABILITY

Internet Resources

• Cornell LII: Products Liability Law: An Overview
• Breast Implant Litigation
  •  Federal Judicial Center
• RAND Institute for Civil Justice
  • Conducts research in civil litigation issues, including product liability and class actions.
• Tobacco Control Resource Center/Tobacco
  Products Liability Project
  • Northeastern University School of Law.
• Toxlaw.com
  • Information on toxic torts.
• US Consumer Product Safety Commission

Treatises & Hornbooks

• Products Liability in a Nutshell.  Jerry J. Phillips.  On reserve.

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Internet Resources

• Medical Malpractice Law
  • McCullough, Campbell & Lane.
• Summary of Mass.
  Malpractice Law
  • McCullough, Campbell & Lane.
• Massachusetts Physician Profiles
  • Board of Registration in Medicine.

Course Reserve Materials

• Medical Liability.  Sal Fiscina, Marcia Mobilia Boumil, David J. Sharpe, Murdock Head.
  Amercian Casebook Series.
• 1998 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, 37th Edition.  Lawrence M. Tierney, Jr., Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis.
• Diseases.  Springhouse.
• Physician’s Desk Reference, 57th Edition.  www.PDR.net
• Health Law Cases, Materials and Problems.  2d Edition.  Barry R. Furrow, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S. Jost, Robert L. Schwartz.  American Casebook Series.
• A Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests, 5th Edition.  Frances Fischbach.  Lippincott.
• Applied Therapeutics The Clinical Use of Drugs, 5th Edition.  Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Lloyd Ye Young.
• Litigating in Medical and Public Health. Boomil
• Healthcare Law and Ethics. Hall

Hornbooks & Nutshells

• The Law of Medical Liability in a Nutshell. Marcia Mobilia Boumil and Clifford E. Elias. On reserve.
• Health Law, 2d Edition.  Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus
  Jost, Robert L. Swartz.  West Hornbook Series.  On reserve.

PERSONAL INJURY

Internet Resources

• Nolo Personal Injury Resources

Course Reserve Materials

• Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Cause Analysis, 5th Edition.  Rudolf Limpert.  Lexis Law Publishing 2006
• Massachusetts Personal Injury Law Sourcebook.  James E. Harvey, Jr., Esq. and Thomas M. Harvey, Esq.
• Handling the Small Personal Injury Case. Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.