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Publication – Biobank

Izzo U., Macilotti M., Pascuzzi G. (eds.), Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks. Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property and the Role of Technology, Springer, 2012 (forthcoming).   Macilotti M., Le biobanche di ricerca. Uno studio...

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Research Group

   Prof. Giovanni Pascuzzi Professor of Comparative Law    Prof. Roberto Caso Professor of Comparative Law   Prof. Umberto Izzo Aggregate Professor of Comparative Law   Dr. Matteo Macilotti PhD in Private Comparative Law Marie Curie...

Firb Project

L’Unità di ricerca di Trento si propone di condurre un’indagine comparativa sui problemi giuridici legati alla pratica del biobanking a fini di ricerca.   Impiegato per la prima volta in letteratura verso la metà degli anni...

Behavioral Contract Law

Cognitive sciences are employed to build the foundations of a new theory of contract grounded on the empirical observation of the behaviour of firms, consumers and public institutions. Topics include:   the relevance of the default...

European Contract Law

Recent developments of European contract law are analyzed from two different perspectives:   the relationship between the national legal traditions in the field of contract law and the regulatory goals of European law the influence of...

Energy Law and Innovation

The fight against global warming asks for radical technological transformations. The shift to low-carbon technologies is the only way to scale down the huge costs of climate change policies. Though, innovation processes do not depend exclusively...

Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Systems

Comparisons of institutional contexts in developed and developing countries are among the top priorities of international organizations like the World Bank, the IMF and the OECD. A fruitful dialogue between comparative lawyers and other social scientists...

Contract Law and Energy Markets

The liberalization/restructuring of energy markets has provoked a deep reorganization of energy chains. Energy contracts became the main tool to coordinate the activities in the wholesale, transport and retail segments. At the same time, energy contracts...

Energy Law

Energy Law is a useful test bed for an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of institutions. The legal perspective is contrasted with contributions from economics, political science and the cognitive sciences. Research in this field focuses on the...

Certifications

The role that certifications are acquiring in the different chains is one of the most interesting phenomena among those characterizing the agro-food sector. Such increasing use involves two elements strictly intertwined: on one hand, the creation...

Wine Law

The study of the wine chain’s regulation offers a representative and useful case study in order to deepen our understanding of many of the national, supranational and international dynamics characterizing most of the agro-food chains. The...

Comparative Food Law

  The regulation of the agro-food chains has acquired distinctive features which permit to assert its conceptual and functional autonomy with respect to other areas of law. The topics dealt with concern the development of regulatory...

Contract Law

This field of research deals with the law and economics approach to contract law. The main topics include:   the economic theory of incomplete contracts and its applications to Italian and European contract rules the relevance...