Torts: Product Liab. & Privacy

Catalog description

This course will explore the various liability regimes encountered in product liability and privacy. More specifically, the product liability aspect will include an examination of design defects, manufacturing defects, and warnings defects. The privacy aspect will explore the four privacy torts and examine the effect of the First Amendment and the associated newsworthiness defense in an era of electronically stored information on the continued viability of the privacy torts. Prerequisite(s): Torts. Graded.