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Review of Afifah Kusumadara, Indonesian Private International Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 288 pp, hb $140

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Spanning 226 pages across six chapters, the book aims to be the leading English-language text on private international law in Indonesia. Indonesia, a civil law country, has legal principles influenced by Dutch traditional private international law, owing to its colonial history.

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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. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.