After the upsurge of class actions in North America, since the amendment to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) of 1966, this initially idiosyncratic American sort of litigation has pervaded procedural systems of countries of Civil Law tradition in the following decades. Its reception has...

Since the adoption of «Parte Veneziana», a Venetian law of 1474 which made the first attempt to protect inventions through a form of patent, granting an exclusive right to an individual, and which is considered the root of the Intellectual Property system, IP has been developed as an...

English Abstract: Behavioral Sciences are relevant to the Law because they have enhanced the comprehension and prediction of human reaction to norms and other interventions. However, they have not yet built a complete model of behavior apt to substitute the one assumed in mainstream economic...

Although all legal systems use some form of prejudgment or post-judgment interest, there is no substantive law & economics literature providing for a comprehensive theory on the impact, functioning and assessment of the judicial interest rate. Mainstream legal scholarship has usually dealt with...

Spanish Abstract: Hasta 2020 los protocolos se utilizaban básicamente para actividades y fines específicos, como la producción industrial, la milicia, la medicina, la investigación científica o el corporate compliance, entre otros. La pandemia de la COVID-19 extendió su empleo a...

English Abstract: Innovation usually appears on the code of ethics of organizations, either as a corporate value or as part of the so-called organization´s vision. Its positive role related to profit maximization or market share is apparent and it is also to the success of some of its specific...

Gender bias is a set of diverse cases of unfairness that stem from various sources. Some of them, as the earnings gap, disseminate to other areas.Damages awarded in personal injury lawsuits is a visible candidate to be influenced for that gap. Exploring that issue among actual judicial...