Product Liability and Safety Law

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This course will examine the modern phenomenon of product liability and safety law. We examine this area from both a social and legal perspective and will consider various theories of liability (negligence & strict liability in tort; warranty in contract). A central focus of the course will be the concept of defectiveness 'manufacturing, design or warning' as well as important limits on this concept in the form of user choice and the passage of time. For students who plan to practice tort law from either a plaintiff's perspective (personal injury law) or a defense perspective (insurance defense, etc.), this advanced course is critical to understanding the issues that contemporary lawyers in this field confront.