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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. Cedric Vanleenhove (University of Ghent) gave a paper on “Punitive Damages and Public Policy”. Only the 1958 New York Convention seems to waive the high threshold of a manifest incompatibility.