European Tort Law 2008

A harmonisation of European law presupposes sound mutual knowledge of the jurisdictions involved in the harmonisation process. However, partly due to language problems it is not always easy to obtain information about all these jurisdictions, especially a

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Tort and Insurance Law Yearbook European Tort Law 2008 Edited by the

European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law together with the

Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Helmut Koziol Barbara C. Steininger (eds.) European Tort Law 2008 With Contributions by Christian Alunaru Håkan Andersson Anne Marie Anfinsen Bjarte Askeland Ewa Bagińska Elena Bargelli Søren Bergenser Agris Bitāns Lucian Bojin Giannino Caruana Demajo Eugenia Dacoronia Anton Dulak Isabelle C. Durant Michael G. Faure Jörg Fedtke Herkus Gabartas Ivo Giesen Michele Graziadei Suvianna Hakalehto-Wainio Ton Hartlief Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay Marie-Louise Holle Jiří Hrádek

Ernst Karner Anne L.M. Keirse Bernhard A. Koch Irene Kull Janno Lahe Rok Lampe Peter Loser Attila Menyhárd Olivier Moréteau Emanuela Navarretta Ken Oliphant André G. Dias Pereira Eoin Quill Lawrence Quintano Jordi Ribot Albert Ruda Loreta Šaltinytė Barbara C. Steininger Viktor Tokushev Vibe Ulfbeck Florian Wagner-von Papp Richard W. Wright David Zammit

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Preface A harmonisation of European law presupposes sound mutual knowledge of the jurisdictions involved in the harmonisation process. However, partly due to language problems it is not always easy to obtain information about all these jurisdictions, especially as far as new developments are concerned. Against this background, the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law and the Institute for European Tort Law decided to publish a Yearbook on European Tort Law containing reports on the most interesting new developments in the field of tort law in different European c