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Full-Text Articles in Law
Judicial Experimentation With A Strict Products Liability Rule: A Comparison Of The Law In The United Kingdom, Louisiana, And United States' Common Law Jurisdictions, Thomas E. Carbonneau, Catherine Garvey
Judicial Experimentation With A Strict Products Liability Rule: A Comparison Of The Law In The United Kingdom, Louisiana, And United States' Common Law Jurisdictions, Thomas E. Carbonneau, Catherine Garvey
Thomas Carbonneau
Since the mid-nineteenth century, products liability law has undergone significant modifications. The applicable doctrine has oscillated between contract and tort theories; fault and no-fault liability schemes have competed for predominance. Despite attempts to create an internationally accepted liability norm, different legal systems continue to espouse differing perceptions of the liability formula in the products area. In addition, even in jurisdictions in which courts adhere to identical liability theories, there is disagreement as to the application and implications of the same standard. This article attempts to set the shifting doctrinal character of products liability analysis into a comparative perspective principally between …
Preface To The Gateway Thread, Deborah Post
Where's The Sense In Hill V. Gateway 2000?: Reflections On The Visible Hand Of Norm Creation, Shubha Ghosh
Where's The Sense In Hill V. Gateway 2000?: Reflections On The Visible Hand Of Norm Creation, Shubha Ghosh
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cognition And Common Sense In Contract Law, Beverly Horsburgh, Andrew Cappel
Cognition And Common Sense In Contract Law, Beverly Horsburgh, Andrew Cappel
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Common Sense And Contract Law: Fear Of A Normative Planet?, Thomas Joo
Common Sense And Contract Law: Fear Of A Normative Planet?, Thomas Joo
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Driverless Cars And The Much Delayed Tort Law Revolution, Andrzej Rapaczynski
Driverless Cars And The Much Delayed Tort Law Revolution, Andrzej Rapaczynski
Faculty Scholarship
The most striking development in the American tort law of the last century was the quick rise and fall of strict manufacturers’ liability for the huge social losses associated with the use of industrial products. The most important factor in this process has been the inability of the courts and academic commentators to develop a workable theory of design defects, resulting in a wholesale return of negligence as the basis of products liability jurisprudence. This article explains the reasons for this failure and argues that the development of digital technology, and the advent of self-driving cars in particular, is likely …
Product Recalls: Why Is Tort Law Deferring To Agency Inaction?, Jill W. Lens
Product Recalls: Why Is Tort Law Deferring To Agency Inaction?, Jill W. Lens
Jill Wieber Lens
The Products Liability Crisis: Modest Proposals For Legislative Reform, William P. Bivins Jr.
The Products Liability Crisis: Modest Proposals For Legislative Reform, William P. Bivins Jr.
Akron Law Review
This article will attempt to identify some of the sources of the problems which are adversely affecting the system of products liability litigation and will offer proposals for reform within the framework of the law of products liability.
Products Liability: Toward Balancing The Scales, Donald M. Jenkins
Products Liability: Toward Balancing The Scales, Donald M. Jenkins
Akron Law Review
The evolution and application of products liability law continues to be one of the most dynamic developments in the law. This issue of the Akron Law Review is dedicated to presenting and exploring recent significant developments.
What Types Of Losses Are Recoverable Under Arkansas' Products Liability Law, Rodney A. Smolla
What Types Of Losses Are Recoverable Under Arkansas' Products Liability Law, Rodney A. Smolla
Rod Smolla
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Legal And Social Implications Of The 3d Printing Revolution, Alexander J. Mendoza
Legal And Social Implications Of The 3d Printing Revolution, Alexander J. Mendoza
CMC Senior Theses
ABSTRACT
Emerging 3D printing technologies bring with it the potential to transform everyday consumers into manufacturers of every product imaginable. However, this impending wave of newfound technological capability is bound to crash against our present conventional system of laws and regulations. In this paper, the strengths and weaknesses of our current intellectual property framework are examined, and its ability to tackle the future 3D printing market is assessed. Particular attention is paid to our modern formation of copyright and patent law, including an analysis of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Repair-Reconstruction Doctrine and other substantial legal protocol. The …
“Danger Is My Business”: The Right To Manufacture Unsafe Products, Richard C. Ausness
“Danger Is My Business”: The Right To Manufacture Unsafe Products, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
While no one would dispute that safety is a desirable objective, it may not always be an absolute priority. Rather, in some cases, other societal interests such as personal autonomy, consumer choice, product cost, and performance may trump legitimate safety goals. This is reflected in some of the doctrines and defenses that have evolved to protect the producers of unsafe products against tort liability. Some of these doctrines, such as those determining liability for the producers of optional safety equipment, inherently dangerous products, products with obvious hazards, and prescription drugs and medical devices, are part of the law of products …
Not Just For Products Liability: Applying The Economic Loss Rule Beyond Its Origins, Danielle Sawaya
Not Just For Products Liability: Applying The Economic Loss Rule Beyond Its Origins, Danielle Sawaya
Fordham Law Review
Most litigants, if given the chance, prefer to assert tort theories to recover their economic losses, rather than rely on the remedies provided under contract law. This is primarily because plaintiffs have the potential to recover more damages under tort law than contract law. However, most courts have adopted a doctrine known as the economic loss rule to bar plaintiffs from asserting certain tort theories to recover for their economic loss. Although the economic loss rule may seem like an easy way to maintain the boundary between tort law and contract law, confusion abounds when courts attempt to determine the …
The Emperor’S New Clothes: Fracking Legislation In Texas, Kirbie Watson
The Emperor’S New Clothes: Fracking Legislation In Texas, Kirbie Watson
LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources
No abstract provided.
Des And A Proposed Theory Of Enterprise Liability, Naomi Sheiner
Des And A Proposed Theory Of Enterprise Liability, Naomi Sheiner
Fordham Law Review
To commemorate our founding in 1914, the Board of Editors has selected six influential pieces published by the Law Review over the past 100 years and will republish one piece in each issue.
The first piece selected by the Board is DES and a Proposed Theory of Enterprise Liability. This Comment, written in 1978 by Fordham Law Review staff member Naomi Sheiner, helped to pioneer the concept of enterprise liability. It has been cited by nearly 250 scholarly articles and in more than 100 cases, including Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, 607 P.2d 924 (Cal. 1980), the leading case …
Proximity-Driven Liability, Bryant Walker Smith
Proximity-Driven Liability, Bryant Walker Smith
Faculty Publications
This working paper argues that commercial sellers’ growing information about, access to, and control over their products, product users, and product uses could significantly expand their point-of-sale and post-sale obligations toward people endangered by these products. The paper first describes how companies are embracing new technologies that expand their information, access, and control, with primary reference to the increasingly automated and connected motor vehicle. It next analyzes how this proximity to product, user, and use could impact product-related claims for breach of implied warranty, defect in design or information, post-sale failure to warn or update, and negligent enabling of a …
Warning: A Post-Sale Duty To Warn Targets Small Manufacturers, Jill Wieber Lens
Warning: A Post-Sale Duty To Warn Targets Small Manufacturers, Jill Wieber Lens
Utah Law Review
The majority of states now obligate manufacturers to warn about dangers of their products that are discoverable after the sale. Commentators and courts have been hesitant about this obligation because of the potential burden it puts on manufacturers — the costs of identifying users and warning them of the danger. The consensus is that only a factually dependent post-sale duty to warn should exist, obligating manufacturers to warn only if a reasonable manufacturer would do so. A reasonable manufacturer, of course, would warn only if the danger to be warned of justifies the costs of the warning.
This Article is …
The Role Of Litigation In The Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Richard C. Ausness
The Role Of Litigation In The Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Richard C. Ausness
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Litigation In The Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Richard C. Ausness
The Role Of Litigation In The Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Prescription drug abuse problems have prompted a number of responses by both drug users (and abusers) and by various federal and state government agencies.
Part I of this Article examines the impressive array of liability theories that individual litigants have relied upon in their lawsuits against Purdue. These theories include: negligence; strict products liability, including design defect and inadequate warning claims; breach of the implied warranty of merchantability; violation of state consumer protection statutes; negligent marketing; fraudulent misrepresentation; civil conspiracy; and "malicious conduct." Purdue, the company that developed OxyContin, has pursued an aggressive "no settlement" policy and has chosen to …
Technology Drives The Law: A Foreword To Trends And Issues In Techology & The Law, Ralph D. Clifford
Technology Drives The Law: A Foreword To Trends And Issues In Techology & The Law, Ralph D. Clifford
University of Massachusetts Law Review
Technology has always been a motivating force of change in the law. The creation of new machines and development of novel methods of achieving goals force the law to adapt with new and responsive rules. This is particularly true whenever a new technology transforms society. Whether it is increasing industrialization or computerization, pre-existing legal concepts rarely survive the transition unaltered - new prescriptions are announced while old ones disappear.
Strict Products Liability At 50: Four Histories, Kyle Graham
Strict Products Liability At 50: Four Histories, Kyle Graham
Faculty Publications
This article offers four different perspectives on the strict products-liability "revolution" that climaxed a half-century ago. One of these narratives relates the prevailing assessment of how this innovation coalesced and spread across the states. The three alternative histories introduced by this article both challenge and complement the standard account by viewing the shift toward strict products liability through "populist," "practical," and "contingent" lenses, respectively. The first of these narratives considers the contributions that plaintiffs and their counsel made toward this change in the law. The second focuses upon how certain types of once-common products cases forged a practical argument for …
Expanded Merchant Tort Liability, Democratic Degradation, And Mass Market Standard Form Contracts—A Two-Part Critique Of Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, And The Rule Of Law (Part Ii), Steven W. Feldman
Cleveland State Law Review
Analyzing a difficult subject that pervades contract law and which is vital to the national economy, many scholars have written about boilerplate contracts. With her 2013 book, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law, Professor Margaret Jane Radin weighs in on the discussion. In a complement to existing contract remedies against abusive boilerplate, she proposes a new tort that she calls “intentional deprivation of basic legal rights.” She also identifies another new tort theory that deems abusive boilerplate to be a defective “product” under the law of products liability.
Radin further contends that these merchant practices …
Strict Products Liability At 50: Four Histories, Kyle Graham
Strict Products Liability At 50: Four Histories, Kyle Graham
Marquette Law Review
This Article offers four different perspectives on the strict products- liability “revolution” of a half-century ago. One of these narratives relates the predominant assessment of how this movement coalesced and spread across the states. The three alternative histories introduced by this Article view the shift toward strict products liability through populist, practical, and contingent lenses, respectively. The first of these narratives considers the contributions that plaintiffs and their counsel made toward this change in the law. The second focuses upon how a formerly common, but now moribund, type of products-liability lawsuit framed the argument for strict liability as a superior …
Warning: A Post-Sale Duty To Warn Targets Small Manufacturers, Jill W. Lens
Warning: A Post-Sale Duty To Warn Targets Small Manufacturers, Jill W. Lens
Jill Wieber Lens
The Law And Economics Of Products Liability, Keith N. Hylton
The Law And Economics Of Products Liability, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
This paper presents a largely positive analysis of products liability law, in the sense that it aims to predict the incentive effects and the welfare consequences of the law, with close regard to its specific legal tests and the real-world constraints that impinge on these tests. The other major part of this paper is a normative assessment of the parts of products liability law that should be reformed. In contrast with the prevailing law and economics literature suggesting that products liability law reduces social welfare, I argue that the law probably improves social welfare, though it is in need of …
A Prescription Warning, Carlton Lee Harpst
A Prescription Warning, Carlton Lee Harpst
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comparative Fault And Strict Products Liability: Are They Compatible?, C. R. Hickey
Comparative Fault And Strict Products Liability: Are They Compatible?, C. R. Hickey
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court's Bright Line Ruling In Riegel V. Medtronic, Inc. Gives Manufacturers Of Defective Medical Devices Broad Immunity, Sadaf Bathaee
The Supreme Court's Bright Line Ruling In Riegel V. Medtronic, Inc. Gives Manufacturers Of Defective Medical Devices Broad Immunity, Sadaf Bathaee
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Another Citadel Has Fallen - This Time The Plaintiff's. California Applies Comparative Negligence To Strict Products Liability, Thomas G. Gehring
Another Citadel Has Fallen - This Time The Plaintiff's. California Applies Comparative Negligence To Strict Products Liability, Thomas G. Gehring
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Punitive Damages In Product Liability Cases , Mark P. Robinson Jr., Gerald H.B. Kane Jr.
Punitive Damages In Product Liability Cases , Mark P. Robinson Jr., Gerald H.B. Kane Jr.
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.