The Unintended Revolution in Product Liability Law
Richard Allen EPSTEIN · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1988
A different version of this paper (with a discussion of the European Community Directive on Product Liability) was presented at a Conference on Product Liability held at Tel-Aviv University, and will appear in the Tel-Aviv University Studies in Law.I would also like to thank William Landes and Richard Posner for comments on an earlier draft of this paper.1 20 Cal.App.3d 528, 97 Cal.Rptr.739 (1971).The case has some currency today because it is featured prominently in at least two casebooks on the subject.Thus it is the first case in M. Franklin & R. Rabin, Tort Law and Alternatives-Cases and Materials 3 (4th ed.1987), and R. Epstein, C. Gregory, and H.