INTRODUCTION
As Americans scroll through their TikTok and Instagram feeds looking for the next Amazon ‘dupe’, a pressing question awaits: If this product causes an injury, who is responsible? The most logical answer is the person who made the product or the party who is responsible for the defect that caused the injury. What if that party acted with fraudulent intent and erased all traces of itself after the injury? What if the party is thousands of miles away overseas and United States law cannot reach it? What if the party is insolvent? If an injured consumer is unable to seek legal recourse against the manufacturer, what are his or her options? In this digitized world, society faces these problems. This gap is the result of enforcing laws that were created pre-digitalization …
Olivia Grice, From Clicks to Claims: Redefining Products Liability in the Amazon Era, 86 Louisiana Law Review 1189 (2026).
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