Ken OliphantKen Oliphant

Director,
Institute for European Tort Law;
Vice-Director, European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law;
Member of the European Group on Tort Law



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Institute for European Tort Law
Reichsratsstraße 17/2
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: (+43-1) 4277-29650

E-Mail: ken.oliphant@oeaw.ac.at
 
 
 
Curriculum Vitae
Ken Oliphant is Director of the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, on extended leave from the University of Bristol where he is Professor of Tort Law. He has also held faculty positions at King’s College London (1988–99) and Cardiff University (1999–2006). He has written extensively in the fields of English and European tort law and compensation for incapacity. He is the joint author of Tort Law: Text & Materials, 4th edn, Oxford University Press, 2010 (with Mark Lunney) and Torts, 4th edn, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 (with Alastair Mullis), general editor of the practitioners’ reference work Tort Law (2nd edn, 2007) in the Butterworths Common Law Series, and editor of Aggregation and Divisibility of Damage (2009), Tort and Insurance Law, vol 26. He also undertook the revision and updating of the title on Tort for Halsbury’s Laws of England, 5th edn, 2010. His association with learned journals includes the Journal of European Tort Law (founding General Editor), the Torts Law Journal (UK correspondent), the Journal of Professional Negligence, the Journal of Law and Society and the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (all editorial advisory board). He is a member of the European Group on Tort Law and in 2009 was elected to membership of the American Law Institute, becoming its only member in Austria.