From: Ken Oliphant <ken.oliphant@oeaw.ac.at>
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 29/03/2010 15:21:17 UTC
Subject: ODG: JETL Inaugural Issue

Dear All
 
I am delighted to announced the publication of the Inaugural Issue of the new Journal of European Tort Law (JETL). For details of contents and **free** online access, see below.
 
JETL 2010, Issue 1 - Contents:

 

Helmut Koziol/Ken Oliphant, Preface (2010) 1 JETL 1

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, The Uses of Tort (2010) 1 JETL 3

Nils Jansen, The Concept of Non-Contractual Obligations: Rethinking the Divisions of Tort, Unjustified Enrichment, and Contract Law (2010) 1 JETL 16

Vaia Karapanou/Louis Visscher, Towards a Better Assessment of Pain and Suffering Damages (2010) 1 JETL 48

Michael G Faure/Niels J Philipsen, Fees for Claim Settlement in the Field of Personal Injury: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands (2010) 1 JETL 75

Ulrich Magnus, Why is US Tort Law so Different?  (2010) 1 JETL 102

                          

Free Online Access:

 

The entire content of the first issue is available for free online for a limited time to anyone who registers on the website: http://www.degruyter.com/jetl/. On registration, you will be sent an email confirmation with a link to activate your online access. The links will not work until you have done so.

                          

Please take a look - and encourage your colleagues and students to do so too! I hope you like what you see.  I also hope that those of you with relevant research interests will submit suitable papers to the Journal for publication.

 

See here for further info and links: http://www.europeantortlaw.net/jetl/

                          

The Journal will be officially launched at next week's Annual Conference on European Tort Law, for which registration is still possible: http://ectil.org/ectil/Acet.aspx

 

Best wishes

Ken

 
 
Institute for European Tort Law 
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Tel. (+43-1) 4277-29 662, Fax (+43-1) 4277-29 670 
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