Organization
& Members

Professor Bill W. Dufwa                              European Insurance Law Institute               Stockholm University                                     SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 

tel +46 8 16 32 92

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bill.dufwa@juridicum.su.se

 

Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC CAREER

1. French language studies, Dept. of Romance Languages, Stockholms University, 1968-1969

2. By the Faculties of Law and the Social Sciences of Stockholm University, the Chancellor of the Board of the Swedish Universities and the Swedish Government, declared in 1972

3. Government appointment to Associate Professor of commercial law (Ordinarie Universitetslektor i handelsrätt) at Stockholm University, 7 april 1972.

4. Temporary appointment as Associate Professor of jurisprudence at Stockholm School of Economics, Spring term, 1975.

5. Temporary appointment as Associate Professor of private law at Stockholms University (with the orientation towards real estate law), Winter term 1975 – Spring term 1975.

6. Temporary appointment as Professor of insurance law, Stockholm University, 1 July 1990-30 June 1993.

7. Government appointment to (full) Professor of insurance law on 1 July 1993. The professorship, being unique in the Nordic countries, is financed to some part by the Swedish insurance companies and to some part by the State.

UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENTS

8. Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, since 1966, and Uppsala University, since 1984 (lectures, seminars, exams) and head of specialized courses (the law of tort, insurance law, compensation law, 10 credit points each). Lecturer (seminars) in real estate

9. Director of the Department of Commercial Law, Stockholm University, 1972-1975 and 1982-1989.

10. Member of the Law Faculty Board, Stockholm University, 1984-1987 and 1990-1993.

11. Member of the Department Board, Department of Law, Stockholm University, 1983-1986.

12. Member (the Law Faculty´s representative) of the Internationalization group, Stockholm University, 1986-1988.

13. Chairman of the drafting group for faculty matters concerning graduate exams, 1987-1988.

14. Deputy member of the Study Program Committee for Legal Studies, Stockholm University, 1987-1992.

15. Member of examining committees at public examinations of doctoral theses:

a. On 19 May 1989, Uppsala University (Lars-Göran Sund: Supervision of Children. A Study in Parental Law, Tort Law and Criminal Law. Uppsala 1989);

b.On 17 December 1993, Uppsala University (Håkan Andersson: The purpose of protection and adequacy. About the limits of liability in tort law);

c. On 15 May 1994, Lund University (Eva Lindell-Frantz: The limitation of insurance indemnity).

16. Member of the Law Faculty´s Library Committee, from 1987 till 30 June 1996.

17. Guest Lecturer and Guest Professor at several Law Faculties in Europe, e.g. during April 1994 at the University of Aix-en-Marseille and during March 2000 at the Univerity of Bordeaux IV (Montesquieu).

18. Initiator and organizer of various guest lectureships for foreign researchers at Stockholm University, Law Faculty (e.g. Geneviève Viney, George Priest, Guido Calabresi and others).

19. Supervisor of sex doctoral students.

20. Prize winner for the best law book of the Law Faculty in 1994 (see number .. publication list below.

COURT PRACTICE

21. District court practice 15 May 1962 – 14 November 1964.

22. Reporting Clerk, the Svea Court of Appeal (situated in Stockholm), 16 November 1964 –5 October 1965.

23. First nomination as judge on 6 October 1965 by Svea Court of Appeal.

24. Temporary Chief Judge, County Administrative Court for a period of one month and 29 days.

25. Temporary Chief Judge, District Court President, City Court for a period of four months and 18 days.

26. Co-opted member of the Court of Appeal for a period of 22 days.

LEGISLATIVE WORK

27.1965-1966, Secretary taking part in the investigate work concerning damages in road accidents caused by elk or dear (cf. the His Majesty´s decision of 9 April 1965 and the report of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, 1965:4).

28. 1975-1979, by the Government appointed expert for the Committee on Product Liability.

29. In April 1999 by the Government appointed expert for the Committee on Co-ordination of the Systems of Compensation.

ARBITRATION

30. Secretary in extensive arbitration lawsuits between the Soviet Union and an English multi-national company 1968-1969, for the total period of three months.

31. Arbitrator in a dispute between patient insurance scheme and the injured party, 1992

AIDA (ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT DES ASSURANCES)

32. 1982 – 1996 Swedish representative in the AIDA´s working group promoting international product liability insurance;

33. Member of the Swedish Board of AIDA since December 1987. Deputy President of the Board 1992-1996. President since 1996.

34. Member of the International Board of AIDA since 1994.

IFU (INSTITUTE FOR INSURANCE STUDIES)

35. Director of Legal Studies at IFU 1970-1977

36. Responsible for the course in insurance law at IFU, 1977-1981

CONTACT GROUPS FOR RESEARCH WITHIN TORT AND INSURANCE LAW

37. Since 1990 Chairman of the Contact Group for research within insurance law. The contact group consists mainly of insurance lawyers and is meant to serve as a bridge between insurance and tort law on one hand, practice and legal science on the other.

38. Member of the Group on European Tort Law since 1994

39. Member of the Group on European Insurance Law since 1999

EDITORSHIPS AND THE LIKE

40. Since 1980 a member of the Association for the Publication of the Swedish Law Review (Svensk Juristtidning).

41. Member of the publishing boards responsible for the publication of Festschrifts in honour of Jan Hellner (1984), Bertil Bengtsson (1993) and Anders Agell (1995).

42. Since 1994 correspondent for the International Journal of Insurance Law (London)

43. 1995 – 1999 Editor of Scandinavian Studies in law.

GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS

44. Founder of the Swedish Scoliosis Association, 1975, and the President 1975-1981 and 1987-1989.

45. 1992 till present appointed by the Department of Finance as member of the Board for Wessman insurance Fund

46. Since 1994 selected member of Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française (Paris).

47. Appointed by the Government as a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board from the 1st of July 1994. Still a member of this Board.

48. In May 1995 upon the proposal of the Founder-Member Professor André Tunc of Paris selected an Active member of the Academy of European Private Lawyers, an Academy with the purpose of making a scientific contribution to the unification and the future interpretation and application of European private law.

PUBLICATION LIST

1. I vilken ordning och efter vilka grunder bör ersättning utgå till trafikant som lider person- eller sakskada genom olyckshändelse i trafiken, orsakad av älg eller rådjur? Ut­redning verkställd på uppdrag av Statens naturvårdsnämnd och Domänstyrel­sen. Stencil. Stockholm 1966.

2. Till tolkningen av 24 § fiskeristadgan. Utredning tillställd jordbruksdepar­temen­tet. Stencil. Stockholm 1973.

3. Produktansvar. Stockholm 1975

[Reviewed: Børge Dahl, UfR 1975 p. 181-185; Hjalmar Karlgren, SvJT 1975 p. 747; Georg Oding, Nordisk Försäkringstidskrift 1976 p. 337-340; Steinar Tjomsland, Lov og Rett 1976 p. 132-135]

Cf. The Supreme Court in NJA 1986 s. 712 (see p. 720)].

4. Förutsättningarna för det svenska lagstiftningsarbetet rörande produktansvar. Nordisk Försäkringstidskrift 1976 p. 301 ff.

5. Nytt ersättningssystem för läkemedelsskador. Nordisk Försäk­ringstidskrift 1976 p. 313 ff.

6. Tvärstopp för no-fault i USA. Försäkringtidningen nr 12, 1976 p. 10 ff.

7. Försäkringskris i USA. Försäkringstidningen nr 1, 1977 p. 16 ff.

8. Responsabilité du fait des produits en droit suédois. Revue internationale de droit comparé 1977 p. 525 ff

[Refered to e.g.: David K. Allen, Accident Compensation in Other Countries, ur Accident compensation after Pearson, ed. by D.K. Allen m.fl., London 1979. P. 206 n. 64; H. Duintjer Tebbens, International Product Liability. A Study of Comparat­ive and International Legal Aspects of Product Liability, Alpen AAn Den Rijn (The Netherlands), Germantown (USA) 1979. P. 10 n. 23 och 139 n. 61; Marc Fallon, Les accidents de la consommation et le droit. Bruxelles 1982. P. 196 n. 81; Geneviève Viney, Traité de droit civil. Les obligations. La responsabilité: conditions. Paris 1982. P. 56 n. 52].

9. A termekfelelösseg Svedorszagban. Bbiztositasi Szemle (Hunga­rian Insurance Re­view) 1977 p. 297 f.

10. Produktansvaret skärpt av Högsta domstolen. Försäk­ringstidnin­gen nr 11, 1977 p. 20 ff.

11. Replik till advokat Glimstedt. Försäkringstidningen nr 2, 1978 p. 24 ff.

12. Produktansvarskris i USA? Försäkringstidningen nr 5, 1978 p. 8 ff.

13. Product liability legislation. General problems and techni­ques. The Swedish experi­ence. Ur Pharmaceutical Medicine - the Future. Bryssel 1978. P. 144 ff. Also printed in Tidskrift, utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland 1980 p. 1 ff and – in Portuguese – with the title Legislaçao da responsabilidade relativa a produtos farmaceuticos in: A experiencia Sueca i tidskrift­en Revista da procuradoria-geral do estado (utg. av Publicaçao do instituto de informatica juridica, Estado do Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasi­lien) 1981 vol. 11 (30) p. 11 ff.

 [Referred to e.g. John G. Fleming, Drug Injury Compensation Plans, The American Journal of Comparative Law vol. XXX (1982) s. 301 n. 20; R. D. Ramsey, "It's absurd!": Swedish managers' views of America's litigious society", Scand. J. Mgmt. vol. 6 (1990) p. 31 ff.].

14. Frivilliga försäkringar farligt alternativ. Konsument­rätt & ekonomi nr 4, 1979 p. 23 ff.

15. Vår komplicerade trafikskaderätt och framtiden. Svensk Juristtidning 1979 p. 401 ff.

16. Frivilliga försäkringar hotar konkurrensen. Konsument­rätt & ekonomi 1980 p. 16 f.

17. La responsabilité du vendeur envers son acheteur en raison d'une non-confor­mité du produit. Avis motive aux tribunax français. Stockholm 1980.

18. A no-fault or strict liability scheme in action - Sweden. Ur Clinical Pharmacol­ogy & Therapeutics. Edited by P. Turner. London 1980. P. 565 ff. [åberopad av bl.a. Ramsey, se ... ovan].

[Referred to eg. John G. Fleming, Drug Injury Compensation Plans, The American Journal of Comparative Law vol. XXX (1982) p. 301 n. 20; Ramsey, see above].

19. Supplement 1981 till Produktansvar (4 ovan). Stockholm 1981.

20. Vem ska ansvara för produktskador? Konsumenträtt & ekonomi nr 5, 1983 p. 10 f.

21. Höga beviskrav på de skadade i rättegång om skador av kon­trastmedel. Läkartid­ningen 1983 p. 4381 ff.

22. Supplement 1983 till Produktansvar (4 above). Stockholm 1983.

23. Tort liability in relation to international certifica­tion. Discussion report elabo­rated at the request of SEMKO (Sweden) for the International Commission for Confor­mity Certification of Electrical Equipment. Stockholm 1983.

24. Produktansvarets reformering. From Festschrift to Jan Hellner. Sthlm 1984. P. 191 ff.

25. Anm. av André Tunc, La responsabilité civile. Paris 1982. Svensk Juristtidning 1984 p. 478 ff.

26. Försäkringslagstiftningen under omprövning. Affärsrätt nr 2, 1984 p. 28 ff.

27. Review of Claude J. Berr m.fl., Circulation. Indemnisation des victimes. Esquisse d'une réforme. Etude realisée sous l'égide de la Fédération nationale des Syndicats d'Ag­ents généraux d'assurance. Paris 1981. Svensk Juristtidning 1984 p. 630 ff.

28. Die Abgrenzung von Sach- und reinen Vermögensschäden. Produkt­haftpflicht interna­tional 1984 s. 120 ff. In a shortened version also printed in English with the titel The Border­line Between Property Damage and Pure Economic Loss in Product Liability International 1985 p. 102 ff.

29. Reviews of Olof Appeltofft och Birgitta Hahn, Kommentar till försäkringsrörel­selagen av den 10 juni 1982 och lagen om rätt för utländska försäkringsföretag att driva försäk­ringsrörel­se i Sverige i dess lydelse den 1 januari 1983 m.m., Stockholm 1983, samt Edmund Gabrielsson m.fl., Försäkringsrörelselagen med kommentarer, Stockholm 1983. Affärsrätt 1985 nr 2 p. 32 f.

30. Review of Terki, Nour-Eddine, Les obligations. Respon­sabilité civile et Régime géné­ral. Paris 1982. Svensk Juristtid­ning 1985 p. 750 f.

31. Review of Lawson, F. H. & Markesinis, B. S., Tortious liability for unintention­al harm in the Common law and the Civil law. Vol. I: Text. Vol. II: Materials. Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney 1982. Svensk Juristtidning 1986 p. 39 ff.

32. Ersättning för skada vid elleverans - ny villkorsregler­ing. Konsumenträtt & ekonomi nr 5, 1986 p. 9 f.

33. Det västerländska rättsarvet under österländskt inflytan­de: algerisk skade­stånds­rätt. Svensk Juristtidning 1986 p. 338 ff.

34. Vår tids justitiekansler. Reflexioner i anledning av en ny rättskällepublika­tion. Svensk Juristtidning 1986 p. 588 ff.

35. Review of Børge Dahl, Produktansvarsstudier - en artikel­saml­ing. Kobenhavn 1984. Svensk Juristtidning 1986 p. 695 ff.

36. Review of Anders Eriksson, Rätten till skadestånd vid miljöskad­or. Sthlm 1986. Svensk Juristtidning 1987 p. 46 ff.

37. Marine pollution and tort law. Tidskrift, utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland 1987 s. 1 ff. Also printed in: Pollution of the Baltic Sea. A two-day seminar on legal pro­blems concerned with pollution. Utö 14th-15th September, 1985 (Skrifter utgivna av Axel Ax:son Johnsons institut för sjörätt och annan transporträtt Nr 7). Stockholm 1988. P. 45 ff.

38. Skyddat intresse, ren förmögenhetsskada och andra skadestånds­rättsliga spörsmål i ett internationellt perspektiv. From: Festschrift to Sveriges Advokatsamfund 1877-1987. Stockholm 1987. P. 473 ff.

39. Strict liability in tort law. Svensk Juristtidning 1987 p. 269 ff [ref. To by e.g. Simon Frédérique, Risques modernnes et indemnisation des vic­times de lésions corporelles. Une alternative à l'extension de la responsabilité civile: l'assurance contre les accidents à caractère indemnitaire. Bruxelles 1990. P. 227.].

40. Preventionen i skadeståndsrätten - finns den? Inlägg i debatt med Anders Vinding Kruse, Suzanne Wennberg, Bertil Bengtsson, Erland Conratdi, Jan Ramberg och Carl-Martin Roos. Svensk Juristtidning 1987 p. 413 ff.

41. Review of Perrine Marée, Nouveaux développements de la responsabilité du fait des produits en droit américain. Préface de André Tunc. Paris 1985. Svensk Juristtidning 1987 p. 560 ff.

42. Schweden, Norwegen, Finnland und die EG-Richtlinie. Produk­thaftpfli­cht Interna­tional (Köln) 1988 nr 3 and 4.

43. Review of Yvonne Lambert-Faivre, Droit des assuran­ces, 5 e éd. Paris 1985. Svensk Ju­risttidning 1988 p. 62 f.

44. Review of Geneviève Viney & Basil Markesinis, La réparation du dommage corporel.

Essai de comparaison des droits anglais et français (Collection: ETUDES JURIDIQUES COMPARATIVES dirigée par André TUNC). Préface de André Tunc. Paris 1985. Svensk Juristtidning 1988 p. 532 ff.

45. The part Tort Law (p. 6 - 42) in: Compensation Law, Stockholm 1988.

46. Swedish environmental law and the individual. Trieste 1988. Acts of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg).

47. Högsta domstolen och lagstiftaren i kamp om produktansvaret, Juridisk Tidskrift 1989-90 p. 327 ff.

48. Environmental liability. National Report. Sweden. AIDA 1991.

49. La notion de collectivité dans le droit d´environnement. Discussion. AIDA 1991.

50. Medverkan utan medvållande och ett par andra skadeståndsrättsliga spörsmål, Juridisk Tidskrift 1990-91 p. 456 ff.

51. Droit suédois comparé au droit francais. From Les clauses limitatives ou exonératoires de responsabilité en Europe. Paris 1990. P. 181 ff.

 52. Tort liability and insurance. From Pacta Leasing. Part of an International Leasing information system. Stockholm 1991. P. 353 ff

53. Société de Législation Comparée och Sverige, Svensk Juristtidning 1991 p. 528 ff.

54. Review of Josef Esser & Hans-Leo Weyers, Schuldrecht. Band II. Besonderer Teil. 7 Aufl. Heidelberg 1991. Svensk Juristtidning 1991 p. 642 ff.

55. Review of Simon Frédérique, Risques modernes et l´indemnisation des victimes de lésions corporelles. Une alternative à l´extension de la responsabilité civile: l´assurance contre les accidents à caractère indemnitaire. Bruxelles 1990. Svensk Juristtidning 1992 p. 399 ff

56. Om faran med sovande vatten, Svensk Juristtidning 1992 p. 241 f.

57. Försäkringsmäklares verksamhet. Kompendium. Stockholm 1992.

58. Flera skadeståndsskyldiga. 3 volumes. Stockholm 1993.

59. Europäisches Haftungsrecht, Versicherungsrecht 1993 p. .........

60. Exklusiv eller alternativ lag? Frankrikes väg mot EG-direktivets produktansvar. From Festskrift till Bertil Bengtsson. Stockholm 1993. P. 101 ff.

61. Arbitration and Insurance Law in Sweden. From Festskrift till Anders Agell. Uppsala 1994. P. 113 ff.

62. Avtalsrätt under kollektivistiskt tryck, JT 1995-96 p. 410-425;

63. Den svenska skadeståndsmodellen och EU, JT 1995-96 p. 529-532;

64. Besittningsbegreppet fortsatt utvidgat, JT 1995-96 p. 816-820;

65. Kontinental skadeståndsdiskussion, Ur Vänbok till Erland Strömbäck, Sthlm 1996 p. 75-92;

66. Ett rumänskt AIDA-kollokvium, Nordisk Försäkringstidskrift 1995 p. 405-406;

67. La responsabilité disparue. From L´indemnisation des accidents médicaux. Paris 1997. P. 57 ff.

68. The Legal Control of risk management, Nordisk Försäkringstidskrift 1996 p. 134-138;

69. Europas Produktansvar. Stockholm 1995.

70. Försäkringsrätt. Stockholm 1996.

71. Aktuell skadeståndsrätt. Stockholm 1997.

72. Assurance no-fault dans le cadre des règles de la responsabilité civile, Les Cahiers de droit 1998 (vol. 39 nr 2 and 3), p. 655 ff.

73. Review of R. Hodgin, Insurance Law. Text and Materials. Juridisk Tidskrift 1998-99 p. 989 ff.

74. Tort Law and the Commissions´s draft White Paper on environmental liability; Haftungsrecht und der Kommissionsentwurf eines Weissbuchs zur Umwelthaftung. From 3rd International Liability Forum. München 2000. P. 59 ff.

75. Försäkringsavtalsrätten i den europeiska smältdegeln. From Svensk Försäkrings Framtid. Stockholm 2000. P. 129 ff.

76. Review of Liber Amicorum Hubert Classens. Verzekering theorie en praktijk. Assurance: théorie et pratique. CRIS nr 12. Antwerpen, Apeldoorn,Louvain-La-Neuve 1998. Svensk Juristtidning 2000 p. 538 ff.

August 2000

 

 

 

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