The Groupe de Recherche Européen sur la Responsabilité Civile et l'Assurance (European Group for Researches on Tort and Insurance Law, GRERCA see: http://grerca.univ-rennes1.fr/) was set up following the observation that French tort law is only slightly present in the European drafts for reform, such as PETL and the DCFR. The national statutes on this matter are two hundred years old, and the case law is prolific and confusing. Several national projects intend to reform national law.
 

The work of GRERCA involves a comparison of national and European projects and national positive law. The aim of this lecture is to highlight some aspects of this research, such as the place of fault liability in tort, the concept of protected interests, liability for things in one’s custody, the definition of causation, etc.