The Hastings Law Journal has published CCL President Robert S. Peck's article, The Coming-Products Liability Revolution, originally presented as a paper at a symposium sponsored by the Pound Civil Justice Institute and the UC Hastings Center for Litigation and the Courts last November in San Francisco.

      Peck's article discusses how connected products, sometimes referred to as "smart" products, remain connected to manufacturers, who provide updates and maintain extensive control over the products even while in the consumer's possession. Old notions that products must be fit for use at the time they leave the manufacturer's or retailer's hands no longer make sense. Instead, Peck suggests that a form of strict liability must attach to injuries caused by products and relies on a long history of tort law to demonstrate why evolving concepts of liability accompany innovative technological advances.