12.06.2025
Alte Kapelle, Campus Uni Wien
Alser Straße 4, Hof 1,
1090 Wien
Programm:
9:15 Opening Remarks
Barbara C Steininger (Institute for European Tort Law, European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, University of Graz)
9:30 First Session
AI Defects in the New Product Liability Directive: A Law and Economics Perspective Roee Sarel (University of Hamburg)
9:55 Discussion
10:15 The Definition of a Product: Between Software, Information and Services Shu Li (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
10:40 Discussion
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Second Session
Farewell to the ‘Factory Gate Principle’? – Liability for Later Defects Within the Manufacturer's Control Ann-Kristin Mayrhofer (University of Munich)
10:55 Discussion
12:15 Causation, Remoteness and Scope of Liability Under the New Product Liability Directive
Johannes Hygen Meyer (University of Oslo)
12:40 Discussion
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Third Session
Product Liability Under Scientific Uncertainty: Does the New Directive Yield New Answers? Caroline Kahn (University of Paris Nanterre)
14:25 Discussion
14:00 Branching Out but Looking In: The New Directive and UK Product Liability Colm McGrath (King’s College London)
15:10 Discussion
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 Fourth Session
How Strict is EU Product Liability Now? Missed Opportunities and the Courts' Heavy Responsibility David Messner-Kreuzbauer (Institute for European Tort Law)
16:25 Discussion and closing remarks
16:45 Close
ORGANISER:
Institute for European Tort Law (ETL), Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of
Graz / European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL)
CONTACT:
Lisa Zeiler
T: +43 1 4277-29665
lisa.zeiler@oeaw.ac.at
