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32. 1982 - 1996 Swedish representative in the AIDA´s working group promoting interna tional 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. EUROPEAN INSURANCE LAW INSTITUTE 36a. In 2001 the first Institute in the world with the aim of doing research in the field of European Insurance Law was created. The Institute belongs to the University of Stockholm. It has an international board with representatives from Great Britain (prof. Malcolm Clarke), Germany (prof. Jurgen Basedow), France (prof. Jérome Kullmann) and Belgium (prof. Hermann Cousy). Bill Dufwa is the founder of the Institute, its Director and member of its Board. CONTACT GROUPS FOR RESEARCH WITHIN TORT AND INSURANCE LAW 37. Since 1990 Chairman of the Contact Group for research within insurance law. The con tact group consists mainly of Swedish 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 (called the Tilburg group, nowadays situated in Vienna and a part of the European Center of Tort and Insurance Tort Law) 39. Member of the Group on European Insurance Law since 1999. (Chairmen: prof. Jurgen Basedow, Director of the Max-Planck Institute, Hamburg and prof. Reichert Facilides, University of Graz, Austria; the group is working within the frame of the Civil code project, organized by prof. Christian von Bar, University of Osnabrück ) 40. Scandinavian representative of a Group, composed by representatives from France, It aly, Belgium and Great Britain that in 1999-2000 worked out a plan for compensation for non-pecuniary damages in traffic accident law in Europe. The plan is today dis-cussed in the European Parliament. 41. Scandinavian representative of a Group, composed by representatives from United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia (5 experts altogether), that on the mission of a Representative of the European Parliament as well as Insurance Associa-tions of Europe worked out (2000-2001) and proposed in Spring 2001 a new Traffic Accident Compensation Law for Europe. The plan is today envisaged in the European Parliament. |