Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
Rademacher took a closer look at the BGH’s landmark decision from 1992, which deemed the concept of punitive damages intolerable in Germany mainly because its function to punish and deter doesn’t fall in the scope of German private law’s concept of strict compensation; punishment and deterrence are entirely reserved for criminal law.
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