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Gabriel Domenech-pascual
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The Europeanisation of Spanish Administrative Law through the Principle of Legitimate Expectations
2020
This article describes the Europeanisation of Spanish administrative law as a result of the influence of the EU law general principle of legitimate expectations. It examines, firstly, whether the formal incorporation of the principle of legitimate expectations into national legislation and case law has modified the substance of the latter, and if so, secondly, whether this has led to a weaker or a more robust protection of the legal status quo. To carry out that examination, the article considers the influence of the principle of legitimate expectations in two different areas: in individual administrative decision-making, and in legislative and administrative rulemaking. Our conclusion is t…
Do fee-shifting rules affect plaintiffs’ win rates? A theoretical and empirical analysis
2021
Abstract This article studies whether fee-shifting rules can affect plaintiffs’ win rates. Beyond theoretical modeling, this study goes a step further and provides empirical evidence on this issue, thanks to the study of a real change in Spanish legislation. Spain applied the so-called English rule in 2011 in the administrative jurisdiction. This study explores whether plaintiffs were more or less successful when litigating against public administrations since then. After controlling for several other factors, it is shown that the new rule considerably increased plaintiffs’ win rate (while also reducing litigation). The paper also presents a theoretical model explaining that the English rul…
Sobre el poder explicativo del análisis económico del Derecho. En especial, del Derecho de daños (On the Explanatory Power of the Economic Analysis o…
2019
Spanish Abstract: El analisis economico del Derecho (AED) estudia los fenomenos juridicos sirviendose de las teorias y las herramientas metodologicas proporcionadas por la economia. El AED puede cumplir una funcion normativa (senalar que decisiones juridicas deberian adoptarse con el fin de maximizar ciertas preferencias), una funcion predictiva (determinar las consecuencias sociales que pueden tener las decisiones juridicas) y una funcion explicativa (poner de manifiesto los factores que determinan la forma y el contenido las decisiones juridicas). El AED ha recibido innumerables criticas. En este trabajo consideramos y tratamos de refutar, en la medida en que lo merezcan, aquellas que imp…