SECOLA

Prof. Fernando Gómez

Professor of Law and Economics, Universidad Pompeu Fabra School of Law, Barcelona, Spain.
Ramon Trías Fargas 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

Telephone: +34-660.09.10.68, +34-93-5421647/1767
e-mail: fernando.gomez@upf.edu

Education

First Law degree, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1985.
Ph D-J. D., Royal Spanish College in Bologna (Italy), 1988.

Academic Career

Assistant Professor of Law, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1988-1990.
Visiting Lecturer in Law, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, 1989.
Visiting Scholar, Law and Economics Program, Harvard Law School, 1990-1992.
Associate Professor of Law, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1992-1996.
Professor, Erasmus Master in Law and Economics, 1994-present
Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Universities and Research, Spanish Government, 1996-1998.
Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, 1998-2000.
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business, Harvard Law School, 2000.
Visiting Research Professor of Law and Economics, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, 2002.
Visiting Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law, 2003.

Other Current Activities

Member of the Managing Board of the European Association of Law and Economics, and of SECOLA (Society for European Contract Law).
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Review of Law and Economics, the Review of Law and Economics, the European Review of Contract Law, and the Revista Práctica de Derecho de daños.
Co-editor of InDret (Spanish Electronic Journal on Accident Law).
Referee for the International Review of Law and Economics, European Journal of Law and Economics, Supreme Court Economic Review, Review of Law and Economics, European Economic Review, and many other scholarly publications in Spanish.
Congress-appointed member of the Spanish Advisory Council for Universities.

Recent International Conferences

The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property: Is it Relevant for Legal Policy? University of Hamburg Graduate Programme in Law and Economics Research Workshop, Hamburg (Germany), 2000;
Civil and Criminal Sanctions against Blackmail: An Economic Analysis, European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, University of Ghent (Belgium), 2000;
Punish once or Punish Twice: A Theory of the Use of Sanctions in Addition to Regulatory Penalties, European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, Vienna (Austria), 2001;
The Relationship between EC Consumer Protection Law and EC Competition Law: A Law & Economics Perspective, Secola Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London (UK), 2002;
The Plural and Misleading Notion of Economic Loss in Tort, Seminar über aktuelle Entwicklungen des europäischen Haftungsrecht, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg (Germany), 2002;
Heterogeneity of Victims’ Costs of Care and the Negligence Rule, European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, Athens (Greece), 2002;
The Comparative Law and Economics of Insurance Benefits and Liability: Subrogation, Set-off, and Cumullation, Comparative Law Seminar, Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY (USA), 2002;
Why Large Law Firms Prefer Hourly Fees over Contingency Fees, Workshop in Law and Economics, University of Hamburg (Germany), 2003;
Caution, Children Crossing: Heterogeneity of Victims’ Costs of Care and the Negligence Rule, DWTC Conference on Economic Analysis of Traffic Safety, University of Ghent (Belgium), 2003;
An Economic Analysis of Double Jepopardy, Comparative Law and Economics Workshop, University of California at Berkeley (USA), 2003;
The Complex Economics of Nuisance Law: Bargaining under Property and Liability Rules with Public Law Standards, 20th European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, University of Nancy (France), 2003;
Cashing by the Hour. Why Large Law Firms Prefer Hourly Fees Over Contingency Fees?, 20th European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, University of Nancy (France), 2003;
Why Large Law Firms Use Hourly Fees?, Levy Fellows Faculty Workshop, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington VA (USA), 2003;
Who Should Bear the Costs of Workplace Injuries? The Difficult Coordination of Workers’ Compensation and Tort Liability, Portuguese Workshop in Law and Economics, University Nova of Lisbon (Portugal), 2003;
The Spanish Constitution After 25 Years: An Institutional Analysis, BMW Center for European and German Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC (USA), 2003;
Paying the Price for being Caught: The Economics of Manifest and Non-Manifest Theft in Roman Law, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington VA (USA), 2004;
Optimal Negligence Rule with Limited Assets, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), 2004;
Being Soft on Tort: Optimal Negligence Rule with Limited Assets, University of Zagreb (Croatia), 2004; University of Hamburg (Germany), 2004; University of Amsterdam (Holland), 2004; University of Navarre (Spain), 2004; Max-Planck Institute for Research in Collective Goods, Bonn (Germany), 2005; Seoul National University (Korea), 2005; University of Illinois (USA), 2005;
The Economic Structure of European Contract Law Principles, Universidad de Catania (Italia), 2004;
Who Should Trust the Gatekeepers: Auditors’ and Lawyers’ Liability for Clients’ Misconduct, University of Ghent (Belgium), 2004; Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2005.