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Chapter 17 Products Liability
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should understand the following:
- How products-liability law allocates the costs of a consumer society
- How warranty theory works in products liability, and what its limitations are
- How negligence theory works, and what its problems are
- How strict liability theory works, and what its limitations are
- What efforts are made to reform products-liability law, and why