Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Part One: Changing Processes of Law Reform
5. Chapter 1. Courts and Legislatures as Agencies of Abrupt Change 3
6. Chapter 2. Prospective Judicial Lawmaking 25
7. Chapter 3. Occasions for Prospective or Retroactive Overruling 39
8. Chapter 4. Evolutionary Revision of Legal Doctrine in Courts 54
9. Chapter 5. Juries and Trial Judges as Agencies of Law Reform and Administration 64
10. Chapter 6. Drafting and Interpreting Statutes 78
11. Part Two: Two Areas of Major Substantive Change
12. Chapter 7. Harms from Products and Services 101
13. Chapter 8. Harms from Traffic Accidents 126
14. Part Three: A Perspective on the Future
15. Chapter 9. Blending Old and New 147
16. Appendix. Index
17. Appendix. Overruling Decisions of a Decade 1958-1967 169
18. Index 181