现代意义上的产品责任法产生于缺陷产品致损问题的日益突出与法律无力加以规范的社会现实之间的矛盾中,并随着二战后消费者保护运动的形成与发展而逐渐完善。这一立法背景使得大陆法系(成文法系)在确立和推动产品责任制度上较之有判例法传统的英美法系相形见绌。正如有学者指出:“产品责任终究不同于契约责任和一般侵权责任,所以必然以法官造法的方式单独成其 In the modern sense, the law of product liability arises from the contradiction between the increasingly prominent problem of detriment of defective products and the social reality that the law can not regulate. And it gradually improves with the formation and development of the post-World War II consumer protection movement. This legislative background dictates that civil law (statutory law) dwarfs common law jurisprudence in establishing and promoting a product liability system. As some scholars have pointed out: "Product liability is ultimately different from contractual liability and liability for general tort, so it is inevitable that the judge made the law alone