Strict Liability: Legal and Economic Analysis

by Frank J. Vandall

Book Overview

This volume presents a cogent analysis of the legal and economic consequences arising from expansion in the doctrine of strict liability and the corresponding decrease in the importance of proving fault. Vandall's goal is to illuminate the role of strict liability in the largely unheralded and informal development of the American compensation system. To this end, he examines and explains the widening of strict liability during the last 121 years,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089930396X
• ISBN13: 9780899303963
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.8"