Civil Law New York Punitive Damages 
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
by Salih Okur (University of Augsburg) On 8 and 9 March, scholars from more than a dozen different jurisdictions followed the invitation of Tobias Lutzi to discuss recent trends in punitive damages at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The conference contained five panels overall, which were split into three blocks.
InHouseOps
JUNE 13, 2022
Remember, these are cases that could involve parties from common law and civil law countries. The international rules preclude an award of punitive damages unless the parties agree otherwise. So it has to be in a New York Convention country. For example, you don’t have discovery per se.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 16, 2024
The lecture culminated in a lively discussion regarding the ground of refusal for judgments on exemplary or punitive damages (Art. 20) in line with the principles enshrined in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), she presented the public policy exception as part of one important line of development within (see Art.
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