My last multi-year overview of significant developments in the tort laws of Europe was written in 2016 on the occasion of the 15th Annual Conference on European Tort Law. Due to the pandemic, a follow-up report initially envisaged five years later for the 2021 conference and intended to cover the first two decades of said conference series was postponed to this year, which is why, technically, this paper is based on 21 volumes of the Yearbook on European Tort Law. This conference series itself and the accompanying Yearbook publications need to be showcased upfront. Apart from insights into national legislation and academic writing, the reporters have so far submitted a grand total of more than 4,500 cases, which are presented not only in the Yearbooks, but also in our Eurotort database. I dare claim that there is no other area of the law whose comprehensive comparative coverage across Europe matches this extraordinary achievement …
Bernhard A Koch, The Dynamics of Tort Law in Europe – Two Decades of Accumulated Experience, European Tort Law Yearbook, volume 11, issue 1. Published by De Gruyter 5 November 2022.
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