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Sailing Under False Colors: The Continuing Presence Of Negligence Principles In "Strict" Products Liability Law, Richard C. Ausness Apr 2018

Sailing Under False Colors: The Continuing Presence Of Negligence Principles In "Strict" Products Liability Law, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Dean Prosser, in his celebrated article, The Assault Upon the Citadel, compared the assault on warranty law's privity requirement to an attack on a stoutly defended fortress during the Middle Ages. Since that time, another conflict has arisen among students of products liability, namely whether product sellers should be subject to strict liability or whether certain aspects of this field should instead be controlled by negligence principles. However, unlike the assault some sixty years ago on the privity requirement, this present conflict bears a greater resemblance to the protracted trench warfare of World War I than it does to the …


Conflicts Between Kentucky's New Tort Reform And The Jural Rights Doctrine, Christopher N. Jacovitch Jan 2018

Conflicts Between Kentucky's New Tort Reform And The Jural Rights Doctrine, Christopher N. Jacovitch

Kentucky Law Journal

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