Derecho Público Económico
Coordinator/Director: Dra. María Burzaco Samper
E-mail: mburzaco@der.upcomillas.es
Centre/Institute/Faculty: Facultad de Derecho
University: Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Main Focus Area: 2, Management and social responsability
Main SubFocus Area: Business and Corporate Law
No. of PhDs: 2
Total members: 9
Brief description
The Economic Public Law Research Group was created within the field of Administrative Law. Its aim is to refocus research towards more important areas of contemporary Public Law, especially: – In line with more recent concerns expressed by European Union organs and leveraging the experience of the research team members, one of the focuses of the group’s research is on normative techniques and the so-called “smart regulations”. According to the European Commission, the latter encompasses everything affecting the political cycle of norms, from the conception of the legislative act to its application, fulfilment, evaluation and review. This is based on the view that regulation quality has an undeniable impact on the economic and social setting, on citizens’ interests and on achieving strategic European objectives. Consequently, we not only need to manage more transparent and accessible legislation; we also need for it to be more participatory and effective. Specialising in this area of research can also serve to achieve the necessary visibility for the Administrative Law area and, by extension, the university’s Law School. Not in vain, we face a novel area of study which has not been sufficiently explored and which, given its economic transcendence, is destined to become a first-order area of study. – In line with attempts to achieve greater external visibility (which, in our view, is an unavoidable objective in an increasingly competitive university setting) and with ICADE’s strengths, the group focuses on Economic Public Law because, first, one of the priority research objectives is based on regulated industries which are intimately linked to the concept of “smart regulations” and, second, because its scope is sufficiently broad to not ignore research in administrative activity areas with an undeniable economic impact (such as public contracting). The Economic Public Law Research Group aims to thus situate its work within the most important nucleus of current public law in a socio-economic setting governed by the current crisis and which demands that public powers not only adopt active measures but also create the appropriate framework to ensure sustainable development. The group consists of faculty form the Administrative Law area, some of whom are dedicated exclusively to work at the university level, and others who, in addition to teaching responsibilities at our university (some are also ICADE alumni), work professionally in the public area (Council of State, Parliament and local public administration).