Manufacturer's Liability for Defective Product Designs: The Triumph of Risk-Utility

Authors

Aaron Twerski, Brooklyn Law School
James A. Henderson Jr., Cornell Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2009

Keywords

Design defects, Marketing defects, Manufacturing defects, Defective product designs, Reasonable alternative designs, Risk-utility standard, Restatement (Third) of Torts Products Liability, Products Liability Restatement

Disciplines

Torts

Recommended Citation

Twerski, Aaron and Henderson, James A. Jr., "Manufacturer's Liability for Defective Product Designs: The Triumph of Risk-Utility" (2009). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 794.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/794

Publication Citation

Published in: Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 74, no. 3 (Spring 2009).