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.
Zufall und Schadenstragung / Fortuitous Events and Liability for Harm
The project challenged the common assumption that, in accordance with the principle of casum sentit dominus, fortuitous, unforeseeable and unavoidable damage must always be borne by the injured party alone.
New Product Liability Directive
On 23 October 2024, the European Union passed a new Product Liability Directive (PLD) and repealed the initial version from 1985. The new text has brought...
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...
Fault-based and Strict Liability
Sino-European Private Law Forum - Fault-based and Strict Liability The fourth project in the cooperation between ETL, ECTIL and the Law School of Yantai...
Tortious and Contractual Liability
Tortious and Contractual Liability: Chinese and European Perspectives Differing notions of the underlying concepts and functions of tortious and contractual...
Personality Rights in the Information Age (WTLS)
The third project of the ‘World Tort Law Society’ (WTLS) on ‘The Protection of Personality Rights in the Information Age’ concerned the protection of personality rights under tort law.
The Aims of Tort Law
The Aims of Tort Law The project examines the aims of Chinese and European tort law. Knowledge of the tasks of tort law is essential for a deeper understanding...
Sino-European Private Law Forum
The Sino-European Private Law Forum The projects and events of the ‘Sino-European Private Law Forum’ provide the focal point for the cooperation between ECTIL,...
The Borderline between Tort and Contract: Interactions and Implications
The Borderline between Tort and Contract: Interactions and Implications All European legal systems recognise a boundary between the domains of tort and...
Pandemics – Liability and Insurance
Pandemics - Liability and Insurance On 23-24 June 2022, ECTIL, in collaboration with ETL , successfully hosted the 19th Joint Seminar of the International...
Differenziertes Baumgefahrenmanagement in österreichischen Nationalparks
Differenziertes Baumgefahrenmanagement in österreichischen Nationalparks With this project, conducted by in cooperation with ETL and Nationalparks Austria,...
Liability for Artificial Intelligence and Software
Liability for Artificial Intelligence and Software The study on ‘Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence and Software’, initiated by the European...
Liability for Means of Transport
Liability for Means of Transport The project ‘Liability for Means of Transport’ prioritises the investigation of liability for railways, a topic as yet little...
Accountability of Politicians
Accountability of Politicians The joint ETL/ECTIL study on ‘Accountability of Politicians’ examines the responsibility of politicians under the law of damages....
Contractual Penalty and Lump Sum Damages
Contractual Penalty and Lump Sum Damages With this project, conducted by ECTIL in cooperation with ETL and the Association of Metaltechnology Industries...
D&O-Liability
D&O Liability In recent years several cases concerning the liability of directors and officers have courted controversy. Arguments raised in such discussions...
Cases on Medical Malpractice in a Comparative Perspective
Cases on Medical Malpractice in a Comparative Perspective Introduction Many providers of health care services and their insurers are particularly worried about...
Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss in a Comparative Perspective
Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss in a Comparative Perspective How should loss, which cannot be expressed in money, be compensated? How should pain be financially...
The Impact of Social Security on Tort Law
The Impact of Social Security on Tort Law This study gives valuable insights into the complex interaction between social security law and private tort law. It...
Liability for and Insurability of Biomedical Research with Human Subjects in a Comparative Perspective
Liability for and Insurability of Biomedical Research with Human Subjects in a Comparative Perspective Introduction The Health Research and Development Council...
No-fault Compensation in the Health-Care Sector
No-Fault Compensation in the Health-Care Sector Introduction The research agency of the Dutch Ministry of Healthcare has issued a research project concerning...
Terrorism, Tort Law and Insurance
Terrorism, Tort Law and Insurance On the occasion of the current discussion on/concerning terrorism, ECTIL has undertaken a research project concerning the...
Auditors’ Liability
Auditors' Liability Auditors' liability is currently a widely discussed topic in many legislations. At the centre of this discussion is on the one hand the...
Tort Law and Liability Insurance
Tort Law and Liability Insurance Introduction Already for a longer period of time the Centre had considered the mutual instruments of tort and insurance as...
Aggregation and Divisibility of Damage
Aggregation and Divisibility of Damage Whether the harm for which compensation is sought in a action in tort is regarded as a single indivisible loss or a...
Liability and Redress Mechanisms for Damage Caused by GMOs in the Food and Feed Supply Chain
Liability and Redress Mechanisms for Damage Caused by GMOs in the Food and Feed Supply Chain On the basis of the research and recommendations under the study...
Employers’ Liability and Workers’ Compensation
Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation This large-scale comparative study analyses the two principal mechanisms employed in modern legal systems to...
Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspectice
Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspective This project surveyed liability for medical malpractice and compensation for medical injuries from...
Legal Implications of Third Party Liability for the European Security Industry
Legal Implications of Third Party Liability for the European Security Industry This project was part of an overall study which aimed to investigate the impact...
The Special Case of Mass Torts
The Special Case of Mass Torts In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the legal aspects of mass torts in Europe. Both academics, legislatures,...
The Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective
The Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective The piecemeal enactment of rules by the European Union (EU) in isolated areas shows that up...
New Product Liability Directive
Product Liability Members of the European Group on Tort Law (EGTL) together with members of the Research Group on EU Private Law (Acquis Group) and its guests...
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...
Tort and Insurance Law
Tort and Insurance Law Series ECTIL and the Institute for European Tort Law have joined in publishing the results of their projects as well as other tort or...
Prescription and Time Limits in Tort
Principles of European Tort Law – Prescription and Time Limits in Tort Prescription is a legal institution that prevents P from enforcing an alleged right...
The Borderline between Tort and Contract Interact
The Borderline between Tort and Contract: Interactions and Implications All European legal systems recognise a boundary between the domains of tort and...
Public Authority Liability
Public Authority Liability In the last decades, liability relating to public authorities (‘public authority liability’) has been one of the main focuses of...
japanese tort law
Japanese Tort Law Keizô Yamamoto, leading expert in civil law in Japan and a Professor at Kyoto University, wrote the country report for Japan for the project...
chinese tort law
Chinese Tort Law For the first time the ECTIL, in cooperation with the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL), published a book on Chinese Tort Law in English,...
Compulsory liability insurance
Compulsory Liability InsuranceStatutory obligations to take out liability insurance are, in practice, the most important means to ensure compensability of...
Medical Liability in Europe
Medical Liability in Europe In cooperation with Ecclesia Versicherungsdienst GmbH, and with support by the Institute for European Tort Law, ECTIL will produce...
Compensation for Personal Injury in a Comparative Perspective
Compensation for Personal Injury in a Comparative Perspective Dramatic accidents in the recent past have stirred public debate on the availability of...
Liability for biomedical research
Liability for and Insurability of Biomedical Research with Human Subjects in a Comparative Perspective Introduction The Health Research and Development...
Pure economic loss
Pure Economic Loss Introduction ECTIL would like to achieve two goals with this project. First, we wanted to present an overview of the various legal systems...
Children in Tort Law Children as Tortfeasors and Victims
Children in Tort Law: Children as Tortfeasors and Victims The project „Children in Tort Law“ provides a comparative survey of the special protection...
