Products Liability Law Restated
David G. Owen · Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina) · 1998
For most of the late twentieth century, section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, the fountainhead of modem products liability law, ruled supreme.With approval by the American Law Institute' of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liabili in May 1997, section 402A ofthe SecondRestatement was effectively repealed In its place now sits an entire new Restatement dedicated solely to the topic of products liability law. 4 This essay briefly traces the history of