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Should We Trust The Gatekeepers? Auditors’ And Lawyers’ Liability For Clients’ Misconduct, Fernando Gómez, Juan-José Ganuza Jan 2007

Should We Trust The Gatekeepers? Auditors’ And Lawyers’ Liability For Clients’ Misconduct, Fernando Gómez, Juan-José Ganuza

Fernando Gómez Pomar

Should We Trust the Gatekeepers? Juan-José Ganuza Fernando Gómez Pomar 13/10/2005 Auditors’ and Lawyers’ Liability for Clients’ Misconduct In the aftermath of the corporate scandals that reached headlines worldwide in the first years of this decade (Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat) investors, and the general public, reacted with surprise at first, and then with indignation. Politicians, regulators, and lawmakers felt the pressure to increase and strengthen the range of measures to combat corporate misconduct and fraud. Probably the most ambitious and extensive legislative reaction to the problem, and the best-known, at any rate, has been the American Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002. Some of …


European Contract Law And Economic Welfare: A View From Law And Economics, Fernando Gómez Jan 2007

European Contract Law And Economic Welfare: A View From Law And Economics, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

The current enterprise of designing and making politically feasible a European Contract Law requires more ambitious goals than just introducing technical improvements in the acquis and smoothing the functioning of the internal market. The paper presents a position of the substantive goals of European Contract Law, from an economic approach to legal rules and institutions, linked to the promotion of the joint economic welfare of the contracting parties. In this respect, economic thinking tends to be more sceptical concerning the ability of Contract Law to bring about wealth redistribution policies than most legal scholars are. In the paper, the optimal …


La Eficacia Del Deber De Pasividad De Los Administradores Sociales En Presencia De Una Opa: Mecanismos Privados Frente A Públicos, Fernando Gómez Jan 2007

La Eficacia Del Deber De Pasividad De Los Administradores Sociales En Presencia De Una Opa: Mecanismos Privados Frente A Públicos, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

El éxito o fracaso de una opa está fuertemente condicionado por la actitud de los administradores de la sociedad target. Su activismo contra la opa, o su pasividad, suelen ser factores claves en el resultado final. La Directiva de opas y el Derecho español -ambos por inspiración del Derecho inglés- sujetan a los administradores a un deber de pasividad, fuertemente contestado, sin embargo, en distintos países y por amplios sectores de la literatura. En este trabajo se defiende que el deber de pasividad constituye -como regla general dispositiva, excepcionable singularmente por los accionistas de la sociedad target- una pieza difícilmente …


The Directive On Unfair Commercial Practices: A Law And Economics Perspective, Fernando Gómez Jan 2006

The Directive On Unfair Commercial Practices: A Law And Economics Perspective, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

Directive 2005/29 on unfair commercial practices constitutes an ambitious attempt at building a general regulatory framework for firm actions towards consumer in the marketplace. The declared objectives of the Directive, namely consumer protection and eliminating barriers for the internal market, do not seem to provide enough support for such an overreaching legal intervention. The paper explores whether other rationales can justify the new rules and critically examines the scope and the tools to determine unfairness in commercial practices. From an efficiency perspective, Directive 2005/29, although not devoid of merit and interesting solutions, is lacking both in terms of over-optimism in …


Responsabilidad Por Daños Al Medio Ambiente Y Por Contaminación De Suelos: Problemas De Relación, Fernando Gómez, María Àngels Gili Saldaña Jan 2006

Responsabilidad Por Daños Al Medio Ambiente Y Por Contaminación De Suelos: Problemas De Relación, Fernando Gómez, María Àngels Gili Saldaña

Fernando Gómez Pomar

El Anteproyecto de Ley de Responsabilidad Medioambiental, de 17.1.2006, ha incluido en su ámbito de aplicación materias que se encuentran sujetas, a su vez, a las reglas de responsabilidad civil general para los daños causados a bienes o intereses ajenos (arts. 1902 y ss. Código Civil), así como a las disposiciones sobre responsabilidad por limpieza y recuperación que resultan de la declaración de un suelo como contaminado (arts. 27 y ss. Ley 10/1998, de 21 de abril, de Residuos). En este trabajo se apuntan los problemas de interrelación entre los regímenes de responsabilidad previstos por estas normas y se analizan, …


Compensation After Termination Of Long-Term Distribution Contracts: An Economic Perspective Of Eu Law, Fernando Gómez Jan 2006

Compensation After Termination Of Long-Term Distribution Contracts: An Economic Perspective Of Eu Law, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

Termination and compensation after termination are two of the most relevant –albeit not the only ones- dimensions of the long-term contracts through which distribution chains are formed and structured. The EC rules that establish a regime of compensation after termination are studied in this paper, in particular, the Commercial Agents Directive. Then, compensation after termination is analysed from the economic perspective, highlighting the importance of the open-ended nature of a relationship, termination as a disciplining mechanism against non-verifiable breach of distribution contracts, the problem of specific investments and the covenants not to compete. The contrast of the examined EC rules …


Coches Y Accidentes (Ii): Algunos Problemas Del Seguro De Responsabilidad Civil Del Automóvil, Fernando Gómez Jan 2000

Coches Y Accidentes (Ii): Algunos Problemas Del Seguro De Responsabilidad Civil Del Automóvil, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

No abstract provided.


Daño Moral, Fernando Gómez Jan 2000

Daño Moral, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

No abstract provided.


Recensión A 'The Strategic Constitution', De Robert D. Cooter, Fernando Gómez Jan 2000

Recensión A 'The Strategic Constitution', De Robert D. Cooter, Fernando Gómez

Fernando Gómez Pomar

No abstract provided.