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Products Liability: Problems & Process
Henderson, James A., Twerski, Aaron D.
840 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1992
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January 3, 2026
I don’t normally review my law school textbooks (lol), but this was easily my favorite casebook of my law school career. It’s not overly thick, easy to read (for a casebook), and I think even enjoyable at times.
The format of each chapter:
1. Brief but helpful intro (a few paragraphs) written in academic and legal, but accessible language
2. Key cases, as always
3. (Uniquely, and my favorite) fake “conversations” between the editors where they jokingly point out inconsistencies in the law and unwritten factors that influenced (or should have, but didn’t influence) the outcomes of those seminal cases
4. Brief but helpful notes on contours of the law in academic and legal, but accessible language
5. Practice hypos for application of the law (no answers, which is the point)
You might ask: Paige, other than (3), isn’t that the format of every law school book? First of all, some casebooks are pretentious and needlessly dense on purpose. And second, I’m sure most others editors aim for that format, but don’t achieve it. Maybe products liability is a relatively small area of the law, and so its casebooks can be concise, but I honestly think this book has something beyond that. A balance between utility and restraint. Imagine that!
It generally guides to through the material, appropriately assumes you will have class and studying outside of the book, and demands only the time and mental energy of you it needs to. Cards on the table I’m very interested in the legal field of products liability, but I do not have such randomly high praise for the textbooks of even classes that I was also very engaged in and excited about.
So, if one is forever reason looking legal casebook recommendations, I honestly recommend this one!
The format of each chapter:
1. Brief but helpful intro (a few paragraphs) written in academic and legal, but accessible language
2. Key cases, as always
3. (Uniquely, and my favorite) fake “conversations” between the editors where they jokingly point out inconsistencies in the law and unwritten factors that influenced (or should have, but didn’t influence) the outcomes of those seminal cases
4. Brief but helpful notes on contours of the law in academic and legal, but accessible language
5. Practice hypos for application of the law (no answers, which is the point)
You might ask: Paige, other than (3), isn’t that the format of every law school book? First of all, some casebooks are pretentious and needlessly dense on purpose. And second, I’m sure most others editors aim for that format, but don’t achieve it. Maybe products liability is a relatively small area of the law, and so its casebooks can be concise, but I honestly think this book has something beyond that. A balance between utility and restraint. Imagine that!
It generally guides to through the material, appropriately assumes you will have class and studying outside of the book, and demands only the time and mental energy of you it needs to. Cards on the table I’m very interested in the legal field of products liability, but I do not have such randomly high praise for the textbooks of even classes that I was also very engaged in and excited about.
So, if one is forever reason looking legal casebook recommendations, I honestly recommend this one!
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