ECTIL is currently working on the following projects:
Liability for Misfortune
From classic cases of accidental misfortune to new developments where responsibility for harm is often dispersed and obscure, the project encourages a debate about the allocation of loss in cases of misfortune.
Neighbours and Nuisances
The project will provide solid comparative and structural foundations for research on nuisance laws, uniting national reports from twelve jurisdictions, structural analyses and further enquiries.
Distributing Liability in the Medical AI Value Chain
This project examines how liability for patient injuries should be distributed along the medical AI value chain.
Liability for Road Traffic Accidents (World Tort Law Society)
The second project of the ‘World Tort Law Society’ (WTLS) focuses on ‘Liability for Road Traffic Accidents’ and is led by Ernst Karner (ETL, ECTIL, and Vienna...
Liability for Human Rights Violations and Environmental Damage in Supply Chains
European jurisdictions have witnessed approaches which apply tort law mechanisms to remedy human rights violations and environmental harm in global supply...
Scarce Resources and the Civil Liability of Hospitals
This project examines the urgent and challenging question of how resource limitations regarding in-patient care caused by scarce financial means due to ever...
Database on European Tort Law
Welcome to EUROTORT, the first comprehensive database of European cases on tort law! This web-based research tool shall allow both researchers as well as...
