Thursday, April 4, 2024
Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
Developments in Tort Law in Europe 2023
Chairs: Eugenia Dacoronia, Barbara C Steininger
09:00 CET Brief reports on the following jurisdictions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Denmark, England & Wales
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Brief reports on the following jurisdictions:
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy
12:30 Lunch Break (light buffet provided)
13:30 Brief reports on the following jurisdictions:
Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania
15:00 Break
15:20 Brief reports on the following jurisdictions:
Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, European Union
16:30 End of presentations
Friday, April 5, 2024
Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
Comparative Remarks and Special Session
Chair: Jaap Spier
09:00 CET Corinne Widmer Lüchinger: Developments in Tort Law in Europe 2023 – Comparative Remarks
followed by discussion
09:45 Break
10:00 Bernhard A Koch: Product Liability on the Way to the Digital Age
Zoé Jacquemin: Disclosure of Evidence, the Burden of Proof, and Presumptions
11:30 Break
12:00 Michael Faure and Shu Li: Economic Analysis
Gerhard Wagner: General Assessment of the New Regime
13:30 Panel discussion
14:00 End of conference