Journal of European Tort Law
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Über diese Zeitschrift
The Journal of European Tort Law (JETL) is a double-blind peer reviewed journal dedicated to this important and dynamic area of European private law. It aims to contribute to the analysis and development of tort law in Europe by the publication of scholarly articles, comments and reviews. It has a primarily comparative focus, but willingly embraces all scholarly perspectives, including economic analysis of law and legal sociology. Its subject matter extends beyond substantive tort law to the wider tort system, including private and social insurance.
JETL is the journal of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) and the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Both are amongst the most prestigious institutions in the field of comparative Tort Law worldwide.
The journal’s focus is predominantly comparative, but analyses of the tort law of a single legal system may be considered for publication if the subjec t matter is of sufficient interest to the Journal’s general readership. Comparative analyses of non-European systems from the perspective of European tort law may also be considered for publication. Submissions are encouraged from all scholarly perspectives, including economic analysis of law and socio-legal studies, and may relate to either substantive tort law, including its place in the general law of obligations, or the wider tort system, including its practical operation and its relationship with such institutions as private and social insurance.
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As of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost.
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Heft 2Special Issue: Forever Chemicals and Tort Law / Guest Editors: Stephanie Nitsch and Barbara C Steininger
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Heft 1Special Issue: Reasonableness and Risk: The Torts Scholarship of Gregory C Keating / Guest Editors: Diego M Papayannis and Henry M Reyes Garcés
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Heft 1Special Issue: The Principles of European Tort Law. Where are the Gaps – and How to Fill Them, Part 2 / Guest Editors: Christine Chappuis, Doris Forster and Thomas Kadner Graziano
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Heft 2Special Issue: Prospectus Liability / Guest Editors: Danny Busch and Matthias Lehmann
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Heft 1Special Issue: The Principles of European Tort Law. Where are the Gaps – and How to Fill Them, Part 1 / Guest Editors: Christine Chappuis, Doris Forster and Thomas Kadner Graziano
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Heft 2Special Issue: Competition Law, Data Protection and Liability – Where is EU Tort Law Heading? / Guest Editor: Barbara C Steininger
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Heft 2Special Issue: Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains / Guest Editor: Martin Spitzer
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| CiteScore | 1.7 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.431 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 1.964 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Please submit your article as an email attachment to the Editor in Chief at the following email address: ken.oliphant@bristol.ac.uk
All contributions to JETL undergo a double-blind peer review process carried out by experts who are independent from the journal’s Editorial Board and free from conflicts of interest. Final approval is by the Editorial Board.
Authors are asked to comply with the JETL Style Guidelines, availlable here.
Articles are usually 10,000—12,000 words in length (including footnotes). Shorter comments on cases and legislation and book reviews are published from time to time.
All submissions to the JETL should be in English of the quality expected in a scholarlyEnglish-language journal.
Hybrid Open Access
In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.
Editorial Board
Ken Oliphant, University of Bristol, UK (General Editor)
Gregor Christandl, University of Graz, Austria
Bernhard A Koch, University of Innsbruck, Austria (Deputy General Editor)
Barbara Steininger, University of Graz, Austria
Christiane Wendehorst, University of Vienna, Austria
Editorial Advisory Board
Mauro Bussani, University of Trieste, Italy
Willem van Boom, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Michael D Green, Wake Forest School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Miquel Martín Casals, University of Girona, Spain
Luboš Tichý, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Vibe Garf Ulfbeck, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gerhard Wagner, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Keizo Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Japan
Editorial Assistants
Kathrin Karner-Strobach
Colm McGrath (book reviews)< br />Donna Stockenhuber (managing edito r)
European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law
Reichsratsstrasse 17/2,
1010 Vienna, Austria.
Phone: +43 1 4277 29650
Website: www.ectil.org.
Institute for European Tort Law (Institut für Europäisches Schadenersatzrecht)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Reichsratsstrasse 17/2
1010 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 4277 29650
Website: www.etl.oeaw.ac.at
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