Projects

Current Research Projects

• Database on European Tort Law (eurotort.org)

• The European Tort Law Yearbook

• Pandemics - Liability and Insurance

• Liability for Means of Transport

• Liability for Artificial Intelligence and Software

• Differenziertes Baumgefahrenmanagement in österreichischen Nationalparks

• Contractual Penalty and Lump Sum Damages

• World Tort Law Society including
  • Liability for Road Traffic Accidents
  • Personality Rights in the Information Age

• Sino-European Private Law Forum including
  • Tortious and Contractual Liability
  • Fault-based and Strict Liability

Completed Projects

• The Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective

• The Special Case of Mass Torts

• Legal Implications of Third Party Liability for the European Security Industry

• Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspectice

• Proportional Liability

• Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation

• Loss of Housekeeping Capacity

• Human Rights and Tort Law

• Liability and Redress Mechanisms for Damage Caused by GMOs in the Food and Feed Supply Chain

• Aggregation and Divisibility of Damage

• Tort and Regulatory Law

• Children in Tort Law: Children as Tortfeasors and Victims

• Tort Law and Liability Insurance

• Auditors' Liability

• Terrorism, Tort Law and Insurance

• Pure Economic Loss

• No-fault Compensation in the Health-Care Sector

• Liability for and Insurability of Biomedical Research with Human Subjects in a Comparative Perspective

• Compensation for Personal Injury in a Comparative Perspective

• Medical Liability in Europe

• The Impact of Social Security on Tort Law

• Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss in a Comparative Perspective

• Cases on Medical Malpractice in a Comparative Perspective

• Compulsory Liability Insurance

• D&O-Liability

• Chinese Tort Law  

• Japanese Tort Law

• Accountability of Politicians

• Principles of European Tort Law including
  • Public Authority Liability 
  • Product Liability
  • The Borderline between Tort and Contract: Interactions and Implications
  • Prescription and Time Limits in Tort

• Sino-European Private Law Forum including
  • The Aims of Tort Law
  • The Protection of Personality Rights in Comparative Perspective
  
  
• World Tort Law Society including
  • Product Liability