Greetings, Obligations colleagues. Please tolerate my use of the listserv for two unrelated queries of the teachers among us, tortprof-l having passed away and lawprof-l having suffered depopulation. Please Reply 1:1 as not to pollute the Obligations list, mailto:rpeltzsteele@umassd.edu, and I thank the community in advance for your kind attention.

(1) I am in search of a free, short, and excellent overview of common law business torts (i.e., from negligent misrepresentation to securities and investment wrongs to breaches of fiduciary duties to bad faith insurance to unfair competition; ideally U.S., but beggars can't be choosers). I do not cover these in 1L torts, but like to send my students into the world with at least a thin sense that this further body of tort law exists. Over the years I've been able to find nothing free, short, and excellent, so have resorted grudgingly to assigning the introduction, essentially an annotated table of contents, to Cartwright et al.'s Litigating Business and Commercial Tort Cases (§ 1:2), just three printed pages but not at all designed for my purpose.

(2) Can anyone recommend resources to help?: I have a student whose first language is Spanish, second language is English, and is struggling with assumed terminology and legal-cultural context in 1L coursework, i.e., torts, contracts, property. I fear that our academic support staff, while earning an A for effort, is not well equipped to this challenge (as opposed to conventional academic deficit). The student's English proficiency is very high, but based more in music than law, so excluding words such as defamation,* libel, slander, and lacking a cultural familiarity with common law, trial-based process and terms. I have had many ESOL students over the years, but, it occurs to me only now, they always have had some legal training, even at the LL.B. level, in their home systems. I'm feeling especially but helpless, because I speak Spanish, but lacking myself the skill level or vocabulary that would be required to practice law en español.

*Notwithstanding Plan B's Defamation of Strickland Banks.