Advanced Torts: Business Torts and Products Liability

This course will explore tort law beyond personal injury and property damage, first regarding pure economic harm in business or economic settings-such as fraud, negligent misrepresentation, interference with existing and prospective contracts, tortious bad-faith contract breaches, boundaries between tort and contract, business disparagement, and unfair competition as tortious conduct-and second regarding products liability, including drug and medical-device liability.