Coup De Grace for Personal Injury Torts?

A Review of Doing Away with Personal Injury Law: New Compensation Mechanisms for Victims, Consumers and Business by Stephen D. Sugarma

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books prepared by Thomas G. Field, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of Risk: Stephen D. Sugarman, Doing Away with Personal Injury Law, (1989). Chet Fleming, If We can Keep a Severed Head Alive, (1988)

A Modest Proposal to Abandon Strict Products Liability

In this article Professor Wlliam Powers, Jr. explains why products liability law is currently in disarray and presents a partial solution. To give some order to products liability law, Professor Powers suggests doing away entirely with the doctrine of strict liability. The author asserts that although his plan sounds dramatic, it is really only a "modest proposal." Professor Powers feels the practice of maintaining a distinction between strict products liabillity and negligence has a pernicious effect on personal injury litigation, and that abandoning this distinction will have little irnpact on worthy cases

Personal Jurisdiction Over The Internet: How International Is Today's Shoe

<p align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, a novel question of procedural law has taken the legal arena by storm: how do we effectively apply traditional concepts of personal jurisdiction to the seamless world of cyberspace? In a world where politically recognized territorial boundaries will typically lead the discussion into where a party may be haled into court as a result of its activities, the Internet presents us with an anomaly of that traditional principle. Courts are now being launched into the unchartered waters of cyberspace where the traditional concept of personal jurisdiction often finds itself lost at sea. </span></p