“Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages?” – Conference in Augsburg on 8 and 9 March 2024
On 8 and 9 March, a conference will be held at the University of Augsburg, Germany, to discuss the current developments in the award and/or recognition of punitive damages. The conference, which is part of a larger research project, takes the leading German decision on the question as a starting point to discuss if and to what extent its highly restrictive approach is still tenable.
The conference will feature the following contributions:
Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages?
Afraid of What?
Compensation, Punishment, and the Idea of Private Law
Prof Lukas Rademacher, University of Kiel, Germany
Punitive Damages and Insurance
Prof Jan Lüttringhaus, University of Hanover, Germany
Discussant: Prof Phillip Hellwege, University of Augsburg, Germany
Why to be Afraid?
Who‘s afraid of punitive damages for product liability?
Prof Catherine Sharkey, New York University, US
Punitive Damages in English Law
Prof Rachael Mulheron, Queen Mary University London, UK
Discussant: Dr Eleni Katsampouka, University of Cambridge, UK
When to be Afraid?
Punitive Damages and Public Policy
Prof Cedric Vanleenhove, University of Ghent, Belgium
The Public Policy Exception in the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention
Prof Marko Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Discussant: Prof Leonhard Hübner, University of Augsburg, Germany
Who is (Still) Afraid?
Panel 1: Still Afraid
Netherlands
Prof André Janssen, Radboud University, Netherlands
Japan
Prof Beligh Elbalti, University of Osaka, Japan
Germany
Dr Johannes Ungerer, University of Oxford, UK
Discussant: Prof Wolfgang Wurmnest, University of Hamburg, Germany
Panel 2: No Longer Afraid
France
Prof Samuel Fulli-Lemaire, Université de Strasbourg, France
Italy
Dr Caterina Benini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
South Korea
Dr Min Kyung Kim, Incheon District Court, South Korea
Discussant: Dr Eleni Katsampouka, University of Cambridge, UK
The flyer for the conference can be found here.
Registration is possible via this link; attendance is free of charge.
Scholars with a substantial interest in the subject who will be unable to travel to Augsburg may request a link to the video stream via e-mail to tobias.lutzi@jura.uni-augsburg.de.