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Orient Express Law, Mauro Bussani
Orient Express Law, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
For comparativists, the ‘Europeanization’ of tort law raises a plethora of questions with no clear right or wrong answer. Is European tort law going to be molded by a common law and civil law convergence? Is there an Americanization of European tort law going on? Should comparative law be forward-looking and trying to build European tort law on new bricks, or should it be backward looking, struggling to find evidence of a common past to be restored? While it is beyond the scope of the contribution to offer a definite answer to all these questions, the paper aims to clarify …
European Tort Law – A Way Forward, Mauro Bussani
European Tort Law – A Way Forward, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
In the last years, there have been growing efforts of building a common European tort law. Leaving aside any positive or negative bias vis-à-vis the reasons underpinning these efforts, the paper aims to highlights the overall implications of reframing this field of law, implications that are often forgotten, or undernoted in the debate about the harmonization of European laws of tort. In particular, the paper points out the problems that any integrative enterprise focusing on this field may face, and sketches the possible outcomes that such enterprises are likely to produce in both the short and the long run.