Congress Should Act to Resolve the National Asbestos Crisis: The Basis in Law and Public Policy for Meaningful Progress, Part One

About the Authors photo-1Victor E. Schwartz graduated with his B.A. summa cum laude from Boston University in 1962 and received his J.D. magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1965. Mr. Schwartz is a senior partner and chairs the Public Policy Group in the Washington, D.C. office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. He is co-author of the most widely used torts casebook in the United States, PROSSER, WADE & SCHWARTZ'S TORTS (10 ed. 2000) and author of COMPARATIVENEGLIGENCE (4th ed. 2002). He served on the Advisory Commitees to the Restatement of Law of Torts Projects on Products …