Kartellschadensersatzzahlungen erfordern eine angemessene Verzinsung, da der entstandene Schaden häufig lange zurückliegt. In Deutschland wird die Verzinsung dieser Ansprüche durch § 33a GWB in Verbindung mit §§ 288 und 289 BGB geregelt, wobei ein fixer Aufschlag von 5 % auf den...

One of the most enduring themes regarding tort law is that it is a dynamic institution that adapts in response to evolving social conditions and emerging forms of wrongdoing. Thus, centuries ago Pratt LCJ said that ‘torts are infinitely various, not limited or confined’. In the current age,...

In law school curriculum, the first-year tort law course is often caricatured as the class with the funky, sometimes amusing, fact patterns where people get injured—occasionally in bizarre ways—and attempt to recover from the party purportedly responsible. In legal scholarship, tort law has...

We read with interest Professors John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky’s new book, Recognizing Wrongs; Professor Catherine Sharkey’s Book Review; and Goldberg and Zipursky’s Response. Their exchange demonstrates that the field of tort law is alive. But is it well?Goldberg and Zipursky...

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...