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85 Tul. L. Rev. 413 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/tulr85 and id is 417 raw text is: Convergence in Contort: Landlord Liability for Defective Premises in Comparative Perspective Melissa T. Lonegrass* I. INTRODUCTION ................................. .....414 II. THE COMMON LAW REGIME............................419 A. HistoicalApproach: Caveat Lessee and Tort Lnmunity.......... ............... .....419 B. Modem Vaniation: The United States..................421 1. From Caveat Lessee to Landlord Liability...............421 2. The Tort Aspects of the Warranty of Habitability..........................425 3. Critique of the American Approach ....... ......431 III. THE CIVIL LAW REGIME ........................ .......434 A. The HIstoricalApproach: Concurrent Liabilityin Contrct and Tort ................... ...... 434 B. Modern Vanations in Mied Jurisdictions ..............437 1. South Africa ................... .....438 2. Scotland..............................443 3. Louisiana ....................... .....449 IV RECASTING AS CONTORT ......................... .....457 A. The Notion of Contort. ......................458 B. Landlord Liability as Contort..........................463 C Benefits ofRecasting as Contort.......... ...........465 1. Breaking the Confines of Privity ....................466 2. Increasing the Role of Fault in Determinations of Liability. ...........................467 * © 2010 Melissa T. Lonegrass. Assistant Professor of Law, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University; J.D., Tulane University Law School; B.A., Millsaps College. I am grateful to the LSU Law Center for its generous research support and to Alain A. Levasseur, Vernon Valentine Palmer, Olivier Mor6teau, William R. Corbett, Ronald J. Scalise Jr., Andrea B. Carroll, Lee Ann Lockridge, Christina Sautter, and Graham Bradfield who read and commented upon earlier drafts of this Article. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the participants of the 2009 New Scholars Workshop of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, as well as those of the Spring 2010 Louisiana Junior Faculty Forum, at which earlier versions of this Article were presented. Thanks are also due to Jessica Perez, Alex Reinboth, Carleigh Leach, Thomas Schneidau, and Jennifer Alford for their enthusiastic research assistance. 413

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