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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. In his paper on “Compensation, Punishment, and the Idea of Private Law”, Lukas Rademacher (University of Kiel) explained the idea of punitive damages and its compatibility with German private law.