The power of punitive damages
Subtitle: is Europe missing out?
By: editors, Lotte Meurkens, Emily Nordin
Series: Ius commune europaeum -- v. 101; Ius commune europaeum -- v. 101.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge [U. K.]; Portland [Or.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9781780680477
Subjects: Exemplary damages; Congresses
Notes: "In November 2010, the Ius Commune Research School devoted the Liability and Insurance workshop on its annual conference to the "Power of Punitive Damages" "--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Punitive Damages Debate in Continental Europe : Food for Thought / Lotte Meurkens; title: Understanding and Solving the Multiple Punishments Problem / Jim Gash; title: Due Process and The Deterrence Rationale for Punitive Damages / Mark A. Geistfeld; title: Punitive Damages as Restitution / David G. Owen; title: The U.S. Supreme Court's Theory of Common Law Punitive Damages : An Inauspicious Start / Anthony J. Sebok; title: Punitive Damages Sensu Stricto in Australia / Danuta Mendelson; title: Punitive Damages in Cypriot Law / Sofia Michaelides-Mateou; title: Reflections on Reforming Punitive Damages in English Law / Jonathan Morgan; title: The Protection and Enforcement of Private Interests by (the Recognition of U.S.) Punitive Damages in Belgium : Limits and Opportunities / Evelien de Kezel; title: Punitive Damages and German Law / Ulrich Magnus; title: Punitive Damages in the Competing Reform Drafts of the French Civil Code / Chantal B.P. Mahe; title: Punitive Damages Under Spanish Law : A Subtle Recognition? / Marta Otero Crespo; title: Punitive Damages : How Do They Look Like When Seen From Abroad? / Marta Requejo Isidro; title: Punitive Damages and European Law : Quo Vademus? / Cedric Vanleenhove; title: Punitive Damages for Certain Categories of Breaches of Contract? / Robert Hardy; title: Enforcement in Family Law by Means of Private Penalties / Sara Matthe; title: The Insurability of Punitive Damages Under Belgian Law / Emily Nordin and Daily Wuyts; title: Punitive Damages for Cartel Infringements : Why Didn't The Commission Grasp The Opportunity? / Angela Ortega Gonzalez; title: Some Tentative Thoughts on Punitive Damages in Case of Bad Faith Claim Handling by Insurers / Lodewijk Smeehuijzen; title: The Law and Economics of Punitive Damages / Louis Visscher; title: Punitive Damages in the Armoury of Human Rights Arbiters /  Vanessa Wilcox; title: Epilogue / Lotte Meurkens.