Products Liability LAW 653

Course Number: LAW 653

Course Credits: 2

This seminar provides an examination of established and emerging theories of both recovery and defense where a person or property have been injured or damaged by a product. Tort and contract theories of recovery are examined and major legal and technical problems of establishing causation and defining adequacy of warnings are studied. Special problems in products liability litigation, including the role of the expert witness, are discussed. State and federal liability reform is studied. The language and effect of the Restatement (Third) Torts: Products Liability are explored.