This book collects essays originally published during the nineties and aughts as law review pieces, dealing with the 'tort reform' movement of that era. That movement succeeded in partly reversing pro-consumer tort law changes of the prior generation, which sought enhanced consumer safety through stricter liability against providers of goods and services. The 'tort reform' counter-revolution highlighted purported disadvantages to stricter liability. This counter-revolution produced pro-defendant legal doctrine in warning law, joint liability, and damages limits, among other things, despite...
This book collects essays originally published during the nineties and aughts as law review pieces, dealing with the 'tort reform' movement of that er...