Tort Reform over a Quarter-Century – Are European Statutory Tort Laws Converging?

Has tort law legislation adopted in the past 25 years by European legal systems brought about some harmonisation or have legislative changes led to the tort law systems drifting apart even further? The article attempts to answer this question by examining, qualitatively and quantitatively, the most important tort law reforms in European legal systems in the last quarter-century, and by assessing the most important drivers for statutory convergence and divergence.