Product liability / Jane Stapleton.

London : Butterworths, 1994.

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Products liability.

Pt 1. History

Ch 1. Product liability law reform

Ch 2. Evolution of product liability doctrine in the US

Ch 3. Evolution of UK product liability doctrine and the 1985 EEC directive

Ch 4. Lessons and limits of the US experience

Pt 2. Theory

Ch 5. Liability as an economic strategy

Ch 6. Critique of wealth maximization

Ch 7. Non-economic theories of liability

Ch 8. A new theory of strict moral enterprise liability

Ch 9. Gaps in the theoretical basis of the directive

Pt 3. Stability of the new products doctrine

Ch 10. The 'defect' requirement

Ch 11. Relatively stable boundaries

Ch 12. Specific sources of instability

Ch 13. Some conclusions.

Includes index.

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