This course examines the sources, development and limits of American laws providing compensation for injuries caused by products distributed in commerce, and also considers efforts to reduce the cost of these injuries through regulation and reallocation of economic incentives. Principal topics include theories of liability rooted in negligence, warranty, and strict liability; social-science approaches to understanding product-caused injury; and the relative competence of courts, legislatures, administrative agencies and the new Restatement of products liability to provide solutions to recurring problems.