Piotr Machnikowski (ed), European Product Liability: An Analysis of the State of the Art in the Era of New Technologies (Intersentia, Cambridge 2016). ix+705pp. ISBN 978-1-78068-398–0. $141.51 (paperback).

The preceding paragraph above tries to give a sense of this variable significance of PL law by indicating with an asterix (*) or double asterix (**) those countries where there is respectively extensive or very extensive litigation and case law; those without any asterix are countries where lawsuits reportedly remain rare. Especially for the (many) countries where case law is sparse, the country reporters do not delve into great detail about the potential applicability of especially Directive-based PL law to the various new technologies (but see Austria, per Koch, p 147). However, other than Japan and Australia to some extent, these Asian countries have so far even less case law and related commentary that may help guide them as well in addressing emergent consumer product safety issues. [Extracted from the article]