The Conference provides practitioners and academics with the opportunity to learn about the most significant tort law developments in Europe in 2015. It begins on the evening of Thursday 31 March, 2016, in the splendid surroundings of the Palais Trautson (Austrian Ministry of Justice), where Catherine M. Sharkey (New York University School of Law) will deliver the opening lecture on the topic of 'Tort Liability for Pure Economic Loss. U.S. and E.U. Perspectives’.
On Friday 1 April, the venue switches to the Austrian Supreme Court, and the day is given over to reports on developments in Europe's national legal systems and under EU law. In the evening, the Conference dinner is at one of Vienna's famous wine taverns ('Heurigen') near the Vienna Woods. The Conference concludes on Saturday morning (2 April) with a special session on 'Liability for Unknown Risks'.
Information is also available on our website www.acet.ectil.org.