European Tort Law - A Way Forward?

In the last years, there have been growing efforts of building a common European tort law. Leaving aside any positive or negative bias vis-à-vis the reasons underpinning these efforts, the paper aims to highlights the overall implications of reframing this field of law, implications that are often forgotten, or undernoted in the debate about the harmonization of European laws of tort. In particular, the paper points out the problems that any integrative enterprise focusing on this field may face, and sketches the possible outcomes that such enterprises are likely to produce in both the short and the long run