"In November 2010, the Ius Commune Research School devoted the Liability and Insurance workshop on its annual conference to the "Power of Punitive Damages" "--Back cover

The Punitive Damages Debate in Continental Europe : Food for Thought / Lotte Meurkens -- Understanding and Solving the Multiple Punishments Problem / Jim Gash -- Due Process and The Deterrence Rationale for Punitive Damages / Mark A. Geistfeld -- Punitive Damages as Restitution / David G. Owen -- The U.S. Supreme Court's Theory of Common Law Punitive Damages : An Inauspicious Start / Anthony J. Sebok -- Punitive Damages Sensu Stricto in Australia / Danuta Mendelson -- Punitive Damages in Cypriot Law / Sofia Michaelides-Mateou -- Reflections on Reforming Punitive Damages in English Law / Jonathan Morgan -- The Protection and Enforcement of Private Interests by (the Recognition of U.S.) Punitive Damages in Belgium : Limits and Opportunities / Evelien de Kezel -- Punitive Damages and German Law / Ulrich Magnus -- Punitive Damages in the Competing Reform Draft s of the French Civil Code / Chantal B.P. Mahe -- Punitive Damages Under Spanish Law: A Subtle Recognition? / Marta Otero Crespo -- Punitive Damages : How Do They Look Like When Seen From Abroad? / Marta Requejo Isidro -- Punitive Damages and European Law : Quo Vademus? / Cedric Vanleenhove -- Punitive Damages for Certain Categories of Breaches of Contract? / Robert Hardy -- Enforcement in Family Law by Means of Private Penalties / Sara Matthe -- The Insurability of Punitive Damages Under Belgian Law / Emily Nordin and Daily Wuyts -- Punitive Damages for Cartel Infringements : Why Didn't The Commission Grasp The Opportunity? / Angela Ortega Gonzalez -- Some Tentative Thoughts on Punitive Damages in Case of Bad Faith Claim Handling by Insurers / Lodewijk Smeehuijzen -- The Law and Economics of Punitive Damages / Louis Visscher -- Punitive Damages in the Armoury of Human Rights Arbiters / Vanessa Wilcox -- Epilogue / Lotte Meurkens