Products Liability Harmonization: A Uniform Standard

Products Liability

Wireless Vehicular Network Standard Harmonization

This paper describes next generation vehicular network standard comparison among North America, Europe and Japan and provides harmonization proposal for Japanese DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication). The basic DSRC standards are in IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.) and in ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard Institute). The IEEE and the ETSI have regular m...

Narrowing the Cat’s Paw: an Argument for a Uniform Subordinate Bias Liability Standard

Jane was an employee at a paper manufacturing plant for seven years. For the first six and a half years of her employment, Jane had always received satisfactory reviews from her plant supervisor John, although these reviews documented her occasional tardiness and one disciplinary action for a safety violation. However, Jane’s performance was always rated satisfactory overall, and John did not c...

Preemption and Products Liability : a Positive Theory

In a large number of products liability lawsuits, sellers assert that plaintiffs’ claims should be rejected because their products fall under some federal regulatory regime, and that the regulatory statute takes precedence over or “preempts” state tort law. This paper is an attempt to set out a positive theory of the doctrine on preemption of products liability claims. The federal case law is l...

Products Liability Reform: A Theoretical Synthesis