The Institute for European Tort Law supports the so-called European Group on Tort Law in their efforts to draft the Principles of European Tort Law.

The former Director of the Institute, o. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Helmut Koziol, as well as the Vice-Director, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Koch, LL.M., are both members of this Group.

The aim of the Group’s broadly-based comparative research is to create the foundation for discussing a future harmonisation of the law of tort in the European Union, above all with respect to a possible codification of European Private Law. Further, the Principles shall form a stimulus for both academics and practitioners and could serve as a guide for national legal systems, thereby leading to gradual legal harmonisation.
Not least, the present regulation of isolated tort law issues, which are at times themselves contradictory, requires a uniform concept common to the European Union.

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