Founded in 1999, the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) is an independent private association based in Vienna, which conducts research on national, international and common European tort law and its interrelations with insurance law on a broad comparative basis.
ECTIL’s research output includes more than 100 studies covering topical and future-oriented issues as diverse as artificial intelligence, climate damage, medical liability, human rights violations and environmental damage in supply chains, terrorism or Directors’ and Officers’ (D&O) liability insurance.
The results of ECTIL’s research are presented at national and international conferences and published in books and journals.
With a distinctive network of more than 500 renowned experts in liability and insurance law from more than 50 jurisdictions from around the globe, ECTIL actively promotes international scientific cooperation and enhances the exchange of ideas between scientists and practitioners.
Since its foundation, ECTIL has also served as the institutional home of the European Group on Tort Law (EGTL), and has thus been involved in the drafting of the Principles of European Tort Law (PETL), a project aiming at the development of a comprehensive concept for a future harmonisation of tort law in Europe. ECTIL continues to participate in the ongoing research work conducted in this framework.
ECTIL cooperates with the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz (ETL) as well as with several European and Chinese partner institutions and the World Tort Law Society.
