Understanding the Law for Physicians, Healthcare Professionals, and Scientists (ePub)

Professor Shapo's other books include the magisterial four-volume treatise The Law of Products Liability, which in its just-published seventh edition has now grown to four volumes of 3,640 pages. A reviewer of an earlier edition wrote that "[m]ore than any other scholar on the planet, Marshall Shapo views and portrays the world of products liability as a living portrait," and concluded that "rarely will the analysis of a products liability issue be thorough or complete without the special lumination afforded by studying what Marshall Shapo thinks about the subject."

Professor Shapo was the principal author of Towards a Jurisprudence of Injury: The Continuing Creation of a System of Substantive Justice in American Tort Law, a thousand-page commentary written in his capacity as Reporter for the Special Committee on the Tort Liability System of the American Bar Association. A published trilogy has carried forward his ideas about experimentation on mass publics in products and the environment: A Nation of Guinea Pigs (1979), Experimenting with the Consumer (2009), and The Experimental Society (2016). Professor Shapo was an Adviser for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law (Third): Products Liability and has served on various committees of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American Bar Association. He acted as co-reporter for the Symposium on Legal and Scientific Perspectives on Causation, sponsored in 1990 by TIPS and the Center for Epidemiology and Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has testified several times before Congressional committees and at other hearings on various aspects of tort law. He received the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award of the TIPS section of the American Bar Association.