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Spring 2005

*  Comparison of  Oregon and Idaho Products Liability Law.
  Tim Helfrich and Shawna Peterson.
*  Products Liability Law:  Comparing the Approach in Oregon and
  Washington.   Bruce C. Hamlin and John R. Barhoum.
*  How Epidemiologists Control for Bias and Confounding.
  Bill Masters.
*  Motor Vehicle Black Boxes:  An Investigative Tool for the Personal
  Injury Lawyer.  Donald H. Slavik.

Fall 2004

*  Rethinking the Myth that there is No Common Law Wrongful Death.
  Meagan Flynn.
*  Critique of the Argument for a Common Law Cause of Action for
  Wrongful Death.  Bill Masters and Bruce Orr.
*  The Consumer Expectation Test -- A Concept in Search of Meaning.
  Bill Masters.

Summer 2004

*  Considerations when Mediating Complex Cases.  Dennis M. Gerl.
*  Admissibility of Evidence of Similar Accidents.  Mary-Anne S. Rayburn.
*  The Consumer Expectation Test -- A Concept in Search of Meaning.
  Bill Masters.
*  Book Review -- A Measure of Endurance:  The Unlikely Triumph of
  Steven Sharp.  William Mishler and Alfred A. Knopf.

Winter 2003-2004

*  Hot (and not so hot) Topics in Product Liability: Case Law Development
  after McCathern v. Toyota. James S. Coon.
*  Hot Topics in Products Liability Statutory Update:  What the Legislature
  did and did not do.  William R. Joseph.
*  Informal Focus Groups.  Kelly Andersen.
*  Admissible Evidence of "Consumer Expectations".  Bruce Hamlin.

Fall 2003

*  Punitive Damages after State Farm v. Cambell.  Tom Powers.
*  Punitive Damages after Cambell, Smith, and Romo.  Ned Miltenberg
  and Erwin Chemerinsky.
*  A New Predictability in Punitive Damages?  Michael J. Brady.  
*  What's in a Blog.  Cathy Crandall.

Spring 2003

*  Issues for the Appellate Specialist by the Honorable Virginia L. Linder and
  the Honorable David Schuman, Oregon Court of Appeals.
*  Admissibility of Employer's Internal Safety Rules.  Edward Tylicki.
*  Case Note: Sprietsma v. Mercury Marine.  Tim Helfrich.
*  The Battle over ORS 30.905.  Bill Masters.

Winter 2002-03




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a section of the Oregon State Bar