Features

Audio Book

Can be set to read out the text like an audio book.
Makes it possible to study while driving!

Fully Accessible

Fully WAI-ARIA compliant and compatible with screen-readers.
Facility to choose a special font to mitigate dyslexia.
Facilities to change the color scheme (particularly useful for those with certain types of color-blindness) and font size.
Full support for accessible use of the spacebar and the tab, arrows, Enter, and Escape keys.

Optimized for Touch

Both the Menu and Table of Contents are optimized for use on touch screens.
Supports left- and right-swipe gestures to turn pages.
Double-tap to highlight a passage and leave a comment, or access the glossary just by touching the relevant words.

No Bulky Books!

No need to carry bulky, heavy books around!
Accessible from any device with an internet connection — even a ’phone.
No chance of losing a Webby Book, and little chance of forgetting to bring it with you.

Helpful Commentary

Unlike some casebooks, Webby Books are not just a mass of passages cut-and-pasted from law reports.
The core of every Webby Book is the author’s commentary.
Explains important themes, and ties doctrine and policy together.

Hypotheticals

Almost every chapter includes at least one hypothetical.
Excellent for giving students the opportunity to apply what they have learned.
Can be used as the basis of classroom discussion.

Questions

Every chapter ends with a number of questions.
The questions address a broad mix of doctrinal and policy-oriented issues.
They also provide an excellent basis for classroom discussions.

Quizzes

A multiple-choice quiz is available for every chapter.
Immediate, automatic grading on completion.
Useful for helping students to identify what they know and what they don’t!

Sticky Notes

Add your own sticky notes.
Notes appear only on the page to which they refer.
Notes live in your browser, so no-else can see them.

Sidenotes

All references appear alongside the main text in the right-hand sidebar (or below the text on smaller devices).
References to both primary and secondary materials are hyperlinked to the appropriate source.

Inaugural Publication

Law of Torts
by Tim Kaye

In the first Webby Book to be published, Dr. Tim Kaye takes an entirely fresh approach to the casebook medium.

Unlike so many other casebooks, this is not just a series of case extracts cut-and-pasted together with minimal editorial input. On the contrary, Kaye provides both a helpful introduction to, and commentary on, each topic addressed. He also begins at the beginning — with a proper introduction to the common law: how and why it was created, its reasoning techniques, and the various purposes to which it is ostensibly put.

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Kaye’s Law of Torts changes the way students study torts.

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

This book makes learning a very abstract topic much simpler, as students can easily navigate between chapters and subsections, use the “find” tool, highlight, and even write notes that save on their Webby profile. It is much more than a bland case law textbook, and is an excellent tool for both learning and teaching tort law.

Christian Romaguera

Law Student

The Law of Torts Webby Book is clear, easy to read and has great charts and graphs to navigate through the various topics. It is a great shift from the traditional casebook.

Brigette Perl

Law Student

As the course goes on it is very easy to click around the text for a reminder of the relevant factors from the past chapters. It is also very convenient to have the definitions with the scroll of a mouse, and to have your text on the laptop with you so you can always access it.

Marissa Cioffi

Law Student

The text is very easy on the reader’s eye and contains design features that permit casual movement within the textual parts.

Michael Finch

Professor of Law

The order of the material flows seamlessly and logically, which makes it easier to grasp and retain the material.

Scott Hubbard

Law Student

Thanks for writing this book. It was great to learn from.

Scott Hubbard

Law Student

The connections made between the social policies behind decisions and the decisions themselves help to connect the ideas and the larger picture about why torts exist.

Scott Hubbard

Law Student

The ease of navigation is tremendous when I want to search for a particular phrase or case; the search function allows me to do so and enhances the efficiency of my studies.

Scott Hubbard

Law Student

This is the type of work that American profs should be doing.

Michael Finch

Professor of Law

Your torts text is superb. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Michael Finch

Professor of Law

I read the Webby Book’s manifesto and found myself cheering on “of course,” “yes, why can’t other law-text authors do this?” and “such good sense.”

Michael Finch

Professor of Law

The Torts Webby Book was easy to use and compatible on all devices. The divided sections helped with preparing for class and creating a study schedule.

Danielle Jenkins

Law Student

This book makes tort law understandable and even enjoyable to read. The text was thorough yet easy to understand. The cases used give complete examples of the concepts discussed in the chapters, and help put the terms in context. The charts accompanying the text were probably the most helpful and give a great visual representation to the concepts that are introduced.

Kristen Overstreet

Law Student

The Webby Book is easy to understand, and access to charts and glossary terms cleared up any confusion and assisted with studying.

Danielle Jenkins

Law Student

I took the opportunity to review other first year torts texts, and found that they all failed at being as well rounded and insightful as Prof. Kaye’s text. I believe Prof. Kaye’s text has prepared me better for real world tort law than the other books, that I reviewed, would have done.

Alan Brock

Law Student

Kaye constantly reveals the very essence of legal argument, thus producing students who will know how to deal with the evolution of social conditions and social views that lead to new trends.

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

This book did an incredible job of always highlighting the context of the cases, as well as demonstrating the trends in the law.

Reading this book showed me what was happening, while inviting me to always think about why it was happening.

Hannah Ibañez

Law Student

The book did not teach me what torts is — it showed me.

It did not tell me what to think about torts, but how …

These are the tools I need if I’m going to call myself a lawyer.

Hannah Ibañez

Law Student

I appreciate that the material always provided me with the questions a reader should be thinking about, as opposed to plugging in what some author tells you is the “right answer” or “rule,” which effectively means replacing a law student’s analytical and evaluative abilities with simple memorization.

Hannah Ibañez

Law Student

I particularly like that Kaye uses cases that show times when the courts have been conflicted about whether a general principle should be changed or continued.

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

Kaye provides introductory commentaries for each topic so that you know what to look for as you study the cases. Then he uses a case to illustrate the basic points. Then says: “Now here’s a case that goes farther, or that takes a contrasting view.”

Each section segways into the next. Discussions of the law are recursive and facilitate understanding.

The book is masterfully organized.

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

I cannot believe the amount of effort that must have gone into producing charts that help students visualize both the concepts of law and how a case proceeds.

Kaye’s many charts facilitate your seeing both the overall structure of the major tort subjects, and the analytical approach to tort cases in a way that case books have never done before — and, in many instances, they actually show you where the cases fit!

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

I initially had reservations about using an online textbook. I even printed out the first two chapters in an attempt to cling to what was comfortable.

However, after my first year of law school, it is my opinion that Dr. Kaye’s book is the best textbook I have used for any course in law school so far.

Hannah Ibañez

Law Student

Kaye’s unique style is more responsive to learning theory than most casebooks…. This efficient introduction both defines the tort of false imprisonment in “black letter style” as do the Restatement or treatises, and allows the two cases that follow to illustrate applications of the general principle. (If the student were to examine other torts casebooks, s/he would see how this book facilitates learning in this respect significantly more effectively than the other books).

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

A well-paced book, easy to follow. No need for a Teacher’s Manual!

Robert Dale Bickel

Professor of Law

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Features

Audio Book

Fully Accessible

Optimized for Touch

No Bulky Books!

Helpful Commentary

Hypotheticals

Questions

Quizzes

Sticky Notes

Sidenotes