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AUTHOR
Gabriel Doménech
Legal Scholars Communities and Academic Conferences
Many scientific communities – including those devoted to the study of law – regularly organize academic conferences to which all members of the considered community are called to attend. After describing the goals of these conferences, their types, their social costs and the positive externalities they may produce, this paper analyzes which type of academic conference could be most appropriate in order to maximize social welfare, which the practices of the Spanish legal scholars in this respect are and why such practices do not always seem to be the best ones from a public interest point of view.
New European legislation on pharmacovigilance
TheEuropeanParliament and theCouncil of the EuropeanUnion have recently adoptedRegulation (EU) No 1235/20101 and Directive 2010/84/EU2 concerning the pharmacovigilance of medicinal products for human use. These and other European institutions have been laying down rules on the subject for decades, but this is the first time they have enacted legislation specifically and (almost) exclusively regulating pharmacovigilance. This paper analyzes the context, causes, objectives, key points and challenges of the new legislation.
Compensating acquitted pre-trial detainees
Abstract Western legal systems are far from having provided the same solution to the problem of whether acquitted pre-trial detainees should be compensated for the harm suffered as a result of detention on remand. Various arguments have been formulated in order to justify or criticize this compensation, but the possible incentive effects of this compensation on criminal behavior has not yet been considered. This paper analyzes these effects, focusing on the case where detention was lawfully and diligently carried out by State agents, and not having been caused by negligence on the part of the detainee. The paper shows that such compensation can either deter crime or encourage it, depending …