Prof. dr hab. Ewa Bagińska University of Gdansk Faculty of Law and Administration Department of Civil Law ul. Bażynskiego 6 80-952 Gdansk, Poland E-mail: ewa.baginska@prawo.ug.edu.pl

Professor Ewa Bagińska holds the Chair of Civil Law at the School of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (1998/1999) and held a NATO Science Fellowship (2000/2001) at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. She has authored a few books on products liability, public liability, tort law and medical law, as well as over 140 other contributions on civil liability, consumer protection and comparative law. Her recent monograph is entitled ‘Tort liability under uncertainty and complexity of causation. A comparative law study’ [in Polish] (2013). Bagińska has participated in the works of the Commission for the Codification of Civil Law. She is a member of the European Group on Tort Law, the International Academy of Comparative Law and the ELI. She is also a member of the advisory boards of the European Review of Private Law and Wiadomosci Ubezpieczeniowe.

Prof. Dr. Jean-Sébastien Borghetti Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) 12, place du Panthéon 75005 Paris, France E-mail: jean-sebastien.borghetti@u-paris2.fr

Professor Dr. Jean-Sébastien Borghetti graduated in management (HEC Paris) and in law (Université Paris I). He wrote his PhD on product liability in a comparative perspective (La responsabilité du fait des produits. Étude de droitcomparé, L.G.D.J., Paris, 2004). He became first a professor in Nantes (2005-2009) and is now professor of private law at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). His main fields of research are tort and contract law. He is currently working especially on the relationship between those two sources of obligations.

Prof. Jonathan Cardi Wake Forest University School of Law 1834 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109 United States of America E-Mail: cardiwj@wfu.edu

Jonathan Cardi joined the faculty of Wake Forest in July 2010. Professor Cardi specializes in tort law, the law of remedies, and the intersection of race and the law. He is co-author of a torts casebook, a remedies casebook, two commercial outlines, and is co-editor of a book entitled Critical Race Realism. He has served as President of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools and Chair of the Remedies Section of the AALS, and he is a member of the American Law Institute, serving as Advisor to the Restatement (Third) of Torts. He is also a contributor to the European Group on Tort Law. Professor Cardi received his BA from Harvard and his JD from the University of Iowa. He then clerked for the Honorable Judge Alan Norris, U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Judge for the 6th Circuit before working as a litigator at the D.C. law firm, Arnold & Porter. Prior to joining Wake Forest, Professor Cardi was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he taught for eight years.

Prof. Dr. Michael G. Faure, LL.M. Maastricht University METRO, Faculty of Law P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands E-Mail: michael.faure@facburfdr.unimass.nl Website: www.personeel.unimaas.nl/michael.faure

Prof. Dr. Michael G. Faure LL.M. studied law at the University of Antwerp (licenciate in law 1982) and criminology at the University of Gent (licenciated in criminology 1983). He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School (1984) and a doctor iuris from the Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. He was first a lecturer and then a senior lecturer at the department of criminal law of the law faculty of Leiden University (1988-1999) and became academic director of the Maastricht European institute for transnational legal research (METRO) and professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law at the law faculty of Maastricht University in September 1991. He still holds both positions today. In addition, he is academic director of the Ius Commune Research School and member of the board of directors of Ectil. Since the first of February 2008, he is half time professor of comparative private law and economics at the Rotterdam Insitute of Law & Economics (RILE) of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and academic director of the European Doctorate in Law and Economics (EDLE) programme. Since 1982 he is equally attorney at the Antwerp Bar.

He publishes in the areas of environmental (criminal) law, tort and insurance and economic analysis of (accident) law.

He has written a number of books, including Marine Pollution Liability and Policy. China, Europe and the US, Faure, M.G., Lixin, H. &Hongjun, S. (eds.), Wolters Kluwer, 2010, 496 p.; Disaster Law, Farber, D.A. & Faure, M.G. (eds.), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2010, 704 p.; Globalization and Private Law. The Way Forward, Faure, M.G. & van der Walt, A. (eds.), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2010; Tort Law and Economics, Michael Faure (ed.), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009, 576 p.

He has also published many articles in legal and economic journals. Recent ones include: together with Goodwin, M. & Weber, F., “Bucking the Kuznets Curve: Designing Effective Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries”, Virginia Journal of International Law, 2010, vol. 51, 95-157; together with Raja, A.V., “Effectiveness of Environmental Public Interest Litigation in India: Determining the Key Variables”, Fordham Environmental Law Review, 2010, vol. XXI(2), 239-294; together with Zhang, H., “Environmental Criminal Law in China: A Critical Analysis”, The Environmental Law Reporter, 2011, vol. 41(1), 10024-10042; “Redactioneel: Is Nederland aangepastaanklimaat-verandering?”, AV&S, 2010, 1 and together with Peeters, M.G.W.M., “Financiële zekerheden in het Nederlandse milieurecht”, Aansprakelijkheid, Verzekering&Schade, 2010, vol. 4, 136-145.

He has taught environmental law and economics, strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid van de rechtspersoon, European law and economics, economic analysis of law, milieustrafrechtin België, droit penal de l’environnement, les Principes de Responsabilité Civile et les Dommages Causés à l’Environnement.

Prof. Michael D. Green Wake Forest University School of Law 1834 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109 United States of America E-mail: greenmd@wfu.edu

Michael Green is a nationally and internationally recognized torts teacher and scholar and one of the United States’ most respected experts in the area of tort law.

In January 2015 he received the William L. Prosser award for “outstanding contributions … in scholarship, teaching and service in torts and compensation systems.” He served as Co-Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, Green and his Co-Reporter President and Professor William C. Powers, Jr. of the University of Texas were jointly honored with the John G. Fleming Memorial Prize for Torts Scholarship in 2012. Green is a member of the European Group on Tort Law, which prepared and published the Principles of European Tort Law in 2005. He is a founding member and Executive Committee member of the World Tort Law Society, an organization of torts scholars from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Green regularly lectures in Europe and China. He is a co-author of a leading Torts casebook and of two advanced torts casebooks. He has written dozens of articles in the tort, products liability, and scientific evidence areas. He is also a co-author of the Reference Guide on Epidemiology, contained in the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, a joint publication of the National Academy of Sciences and the Federal Judicial Center. The Guide serves as a reference on scientific disciplines for federal and state court judges.

He has an instrument and commercial pilot's license and takes every opportunity to fly that presents itself. He and his wife, Carol, have two sons and a daughter.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Koch, LL.M. University of Innsbruck Institut für Zivilrecht Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria E-mail: b.a.koch@uibk.ac.at Website: www.zivilrechts.info

Bernhard A. Koch was born in 1966 in Feldkirch (Austria). He studied law in Innsbruck (Mag. iur. 1989), Tübingen (Germany, Dr. iur. summa cum laude 1992), and Michigan (USA, LL.M. 1993). Koch completed his habilitation for private law and comparative law in 1998.

After his first year at the University of Innsbruck’s faculty of law, Koch started to work there as astudent assistant in 1985. Upon completion of his studies, he continued on as a university assistant and subsequently as an assistant professor. He was awarded tenure in 1999. After two years on leave for work at the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he returned to Innsbruck in 2003, where he holds a chair in civil law ever since. He is the academic director of the University of Innsbruck postgraduate programme on medical law. Koch also teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. From 2004 to 2010, hewas the Deputy Director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for European Tort Law (ETL).

Koch’s main fields of research are tort, real property and family law as well as conflicts of law. He is a member of the European Group on Tort Law and serves as a deputy general editor of the Journal of European Tort Law as well as on the Consejo Asesor Internacional of the Spanish Revista de Derecho Privado.

Prof. Dr. iur. Ulrich Magnus, RiOLG Universität Hamburg Fakultätfür Rechtswissenschaft Rothenbaumchaussee 33 20148 Hamburg, Germany E-mail: ulrich.magnus@jura.uni-hamburg.de

Born 1944; study of law in Berlin (West), Freiburg and Heidelberg; 1972 Dr. jur. (Heidelberg); 1973 – 1983 Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute in Hamburg; 1983 habilitation and until 2009 Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Hamburg; from 1994 until 2009 also Judge at the Hamburg Court of Appeal; Affiliate Researcher at the Hamburg Max-Planck-Institute and member of international research groups and organisations; oft-consulted legal expert for German and foreign courts, ministries and international organisations.

Prof. Dr. Gert Straetmans Universiteit Antwerpen - University of Antwerp Faculteit Rechten - Faculty of Law Venusstraat 23 BE 2000 Antwerpen Belgium E-mail: gert.straetmans@uantwerpen.be

Gert Straetmans (Dr. iur. University of Leuven, 1997) is full professor at the faculty of law of the University of Antwerp. He teaches commercial law (including intellectual property law and competition law) and advanced courses on European free movement law and unfair commercial practices law. He served as Dean of the Law Faculty (2008-2012) and is a member of the Research Group on the Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group), which formed part of the “CoPECL Network of Excellence” established under the EU Sixth Framework Programme. He was the Belgian expert involved in the European Consumer Compendium Group (2006-2013), financed by the European Commission. He is senior fellow of the Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, where he also lectured on European law as a staff member (2000-2014). He is also an associate-member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a member of the European Law Institute, Vienna. He has a longstanding expertise in commercial/economic law, competition law, European substantive law and (European) Consumer law. Prior to his appointment in Antwerp he lectured on European law and competition law, as a staff member of the University of Leyden. He also lectures on a regular basis at the University of Toulouse I Capitole. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of EU Law and Belgian Commercial and Consumer Law.

Drs. Dimitri Verhoeven Universiteit Antwerpen-University of Antwerp Faculteit Rechten - Faculty of Law Venusstraat 23 BE 2000 Antwerpen Belgium E-mail: dimitri.verhoeven@uantwerpen.be

Dimitri Verhoeven (Master of Laws, University of Antwerp, 2012) is researcher at the faculty of law of the University of Antwerp. He prepares a doctoral thesis on product safety and product recall in the EU and more specifically the relationship with product liability. He is also teaching assistant in courses concerning tort law and medical law, taught at master level. He participated as a speaker in the World Congress on Medical Law in 2012 and 2014 where he gave lectures on respectively patient recall (2012) and liability for defective bodily material (2014). He has expertise in tort law, medical law, (European) product liability law and (European) product safety law and publishes regularly on these topics.