Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
Opening Lecture
Chair: Gregor Christandl
18:30 CET Helmut Koziol: Rethinking the Law of Loss Allocation
Followed by a reception
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
Chairs: Eugenia Dacoronia, Monika Hinteregger, Bernhard A Koch, Barbara C Steininger
Developments in Tort Law in Europe 2025
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 10, 2026
Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
Comparative Remarks, Special Session & Early Career Panel
Chairs: Ernst Karner, Barbara C Steininger
09:00 CET Bernhard A Koch: Developments in Tort Law in Europe 2025 – Comparative Remarks
followed by discussion
09:50 Barbara C Steininger: Harmonisation of Tort Law Revisited – Introduction
Bjarte Askeland: Court Practice and Harmonisation – Status and Challenges
in the Face of Modern Tort Law
10:40 Break
11:00 Marta Infantino: Tort Reform in a Quarter-Century. Are European Statutory
Laws Converging?
Paula Giliker: EU Law as a Force for Harmonisation of the Law of Tort
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel discussion
Chairs: Bernhard A Koch, Christiane Wendehorst
14:30 Early Career Panel I
Chair: Andrew J Bell
Izabela Adrych-Brzezińska: Non-Compensatory Functions of Tort Law: Prevention,
Deterrence and Punishment in European Legal Systems
Francesca Gennari: Product Liability of AI-based Medical Devices
Lukas Van Roy: Defying the Principle of Full Compensation: Statutory Reduction Clauses
15:15 Break
15:35 Early Career Panel II: Discussion
Chair: David Messner-Kreuzbauer
16:30 End of conference