Consumer Protection from Dangerous Products
Where We Started and Where We AreJoin the Intellectual Property Law Program as they host Michael Lemov, former General Counsel, National Commission on Product Safety, and Robert Adler, Commissioner, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, as they discuss the story of the generation of the idea of an agency to protect consumers from dangerous products, the negotiations that led to the 1972 Consumer Product Safety Act and the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, and the story of how the Consumer Product Safety Commission got to what it is today.