Publication of the week: Dr Carol Brennan

Vera Bermingham and Carol Brennan, Tort Law Directions (5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 ). 448 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-8753247.

Tort Law, by joint authors Carol Brennan and Vera Bermingham, was published in its fifth edition in May 2016. It is part of Oxford University Press’s Directions series, which approaches the fundamental areas of law in a way which enables students to gain a complete understanding of the topic in context. Each book has a connected set of online resources. Tort Law includes such diverse topics as negligence, nuisance and defamation and the book aims to make accessible traditionally challenging legal issues such as causation and the duty of care for pure economic loss in the law of negligence.

New to this edition:

• Expanded coverage of negligence and defamation to aid students in their understanding of these areas
• New end-of-chapter questions provided to help students to test and consolidate their knowledge, with guidance on answering these questions provided online
• ‘Bigger picture’ learning feature introduced in every chapter to put the law into context
• More critical detail and ‘thinking points’ added throughout the book to encourage students to become independent legal thinkers
• The Directions series has been fully redesigned and refreshed for 2016 to make the study of law accessible and rewarding for students

Read more about this book on the Oxford University Press website.

Carol Brennan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law. She teaches Tort, Evidence, Medical Law and Criminology & Criminal Justice.  Her current main area of research is into the world-wide movement of holding official inquiries into historic institutional child abuse.