Products Liability in a Nutshell
Author:
Owen, David G.
Edition:
8th
Copyright Date:
2009
- Publication Date: October 8th, 2008
- ISBN: 9780314170866
- Subject: Products Liability
- Series: Nutshells
- Type: Overviews
- Description: Owen’s Products Liability in a Nutshell provides an overview of products liability law, organizing and explaining the essential history, developments, policies, and tensions of this field of law succinctly yet comprehensively. An abridgment of the author's acclaimed Hornbook treatise, this short work examines classic and recent cases and other developments in products liability law, including: Theories of liability Definitions and proof of product defects Standards for expert testimony The assault on strict liability by the state-of-the-art doctrine Federal preemption and other defenses Restatement of the Law (3d) Torts, Products Liability
