Events

At the Conference on the topic of Product Liability on 17th of September 2015 in in the Austrian Ministry of Justice (Palais Trautson), Museumsstraße 7, 1070 Vienna, organised by the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL) and the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL), the World Tort Law Society will present the results of their research on this issue dealing with and analysing current problems of product liability worldwide. Helmut Koziol (ECTIL) will present the comparative conclusions of the WTLS research to which international scholars will offer their comments: YANG Lixin (Renmin University, Beijing), Catherine M. SHARKEY (New York University), Ken OLIPHANT (University of Bristol) und Anton FAGAN (University of Cape Town).

The attendance of international renowned scientists from various countries around the world both at the Conference and in the project allow for a special focus on different solution mechanisms in jurisdictions across the globe.

The Conference will provide ample opportunity for discussion and debate.

The Conference on the topic of ‘The Aims of Tort Law’, which will take place on 16th and 17th October 2015 in the Old City Hall, Wipplingerstraße 6-8, 1010 Vienna, is jointly organised by the Sino-European Private Law Forum, the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL) and the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL). 

At the start of the Conference, Helmut KOZIOL (Vienna/Graz) will present an introduction into issues the project is dealing with. This will be followed by five topics which will each be analysed by a Chinese and a European presenter. The speakers will be CAO Xianfeng (Jilin), CUI Jianyuan (Beijing), GUO Mingrui (Yantai), WANG Cheng (Peking) and ZHANG Pinghua (Yantai) as well as Michael FAURE (Maastricht/Rotterdam), Monika HINTEREGGER (Graz), Ernst KARNER (Wien), Ken OLIPHANT (Bristol) und Alessandro SCARSO (Milan).

The Conference will provide ample opportunity for discussion and debate.