Selected Papers by Juan Mora Sanguinetti
InDret, 2014
En el mundo jurídico español existe una suerte de mito de la especialización judicial. Parece com... more En el mundo jurídico español existe una suerte de mito de la especialización judicial. Parece como si de ella se derivaran sólo ventajas, como si una mayor especialización de nuestros órganos jurisdiccionales hubiera de redundar siempre y necesariamente en una mejora de la Administración de Justicia. Tras exponer en qué consiste la especialización judicial y cuáles pueden ser sus manifestaciones, el presente trabajo analiza sus beneficios y sus costes sociales, y ofrece algunos criterios que deberían tenerse en cuenta para determinar cuándo la misma es netamente ventajosa.
In the Spanish legal world there is arguably a kind of "judicial specialization myth". It is as if specializing the courts were necessarily advantageous for the proper functioning of the judiciary. After defining what is judicial specialization and describing the forms it can take, this paper analyzes which social benefits and costs it may entail. The paper also offers some general criteria for determining when the benefits outweigh the costs and, therefore, judicial specialization is desirable.
International Review of Law and Economics, 2020
This article studies whether fee-shifting rules can affect plaintiffs’ win rates. Beyond theoreti... more This article studies whether fee-shifting rules can affect plaintiffs’ win rates. Beyond theoretical modeling, this study goes a step further and provides empirical evidence on this issue, thanks to the study of a real change in Spanish legislation. Spain applied the so-called English rule in 2011 in the administrative jurisdiction. This study explores whether plaintiffs were more or less successful when litigating against public administrations since then. After controlling for several other factors, it is shown that the new rule considerably increased plaintiffs’ win rate (while also reducing litigation). The paper also presents a theoretical model explaining that the English rule can increase the prevalence of judgments in favor of plaintiffs through two channels: the selection of cases brought before the courts by interested parties and the level of deference paid by courts to the decisions under review.
Papers by Juan Mora Sanguinetti
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 2012
The Spanish economy experienced significantly weaker labour productivity growth than other OECD e... more The Spanish economy experienced significantly weaker labour productivity growth than other OECD economies and failed to catch up with the most advanced economies in the period 1996-2007. In recent years labour productivity growth has accelerated, but this recovery is likely to be due to cyclical and temporary factors. The aim of this paper is to identify what factors weigh on
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Selected Papers by Juan Mora Sanguinetti
In the Spanish legal world there is arguably a kind of "judicial specialization myth". It is as if specializing the courts were necessarily advantageous for the proper functioning of the judiciary. After defining what is judicial specialization and describing the forms it can take, this paper analyzes which social benefits and costs it may entail. The paper also offers some general criteria for determining when the benefits outweigh the costs and, therefore, judicial specialization is desirable.
Papers by Juan Mora Sanguinetti
In the Spanish legal world there is arguably a kind of "judicial specialization myth". It is as if specializing the courts were necessarily advantageous for the proper functioning of the judiciary. After defining what is judicial specialization and describing the forms it can take, this paper analyzes which social benefits and costs it may entail. The paper also offers some general criteria for determining when the benefits outweigh the costs and, therefore, judicial specialization is desirable.