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Alessandra Arcuri

Alessandra Arcuri

Alessandra Arcuri is Associate Professor of Law and Economics and International Economic Law. She holds a law degree with honors from Rome's La Sapienza University (1997), an LLM in Law and Economics with honors from Utrecht University (1998), and a Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam (2005). In 2007 she received an Erasmus Fellowship to conduct research on the relationship between risk law and international economic law. In 2003-2004 Alessandra was a Global Fellow at NYU School of Law, and in Spring 2001 she was Marie Curie Fellow at Hamburg University.

Alessandra regularly lectures in the (post) graduate courses Economics of Public Law and International Economic Law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has also lectured on environmental law and policy at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden, at the Maastricht University in cooperation with the University of Benin, Lomè, Togo, at the LUISS Management University of Rome, Italy and at the School of Economics, University of Siena, Italy. Her research focuses on risk law, law and economics and international economic law; she has published on topics of safety regulation, environmental liability in Europe, the use of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory contexts, the history and methodology of Law and Economics, the law of catastrophic risk, the Precautionary Principle and the relationship between Emission Trading Schemes for greenhouse gases and the Polluting-Pays Principle.

Representative Publications

  • “Centralization versus Decentralization as a Risk-Return Trade-Off” 53 Journal of Law and Economics, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1013329 (coauthor: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci)
  • “Emissions Trading and the Polluter-Pays Principle” 4(2) Review of Law and Economics, 2008, (coauthored with Edwin Woerdman and Stefano Clò) .
  • “Eclecticism in Law and Economics” 1(3) Erasmus Law Review, 2008, pp. 59-81.
  • “Compliance is a hard nut to crack in the Biotech Dispute” Bridges Trade BioRes, 2007, pp. 11-13 available at http://www.ictsd.org/cyberlaunch/biores-web.pdf
  • “Reconstructing precaution: deconstructing misconception” 21(3) Ethics and International Affairs, 2007, pp. 359-79.
  • “The law of catastrophic risks: or on what to do when the impossible may erupt into the possible” 55 Ars Aequi, 2006, pp. 2-10.
  • “The Case for a Procedural Version of the Precautionary Principle Erring on the Side of Environmental Preservation” in Marcel Boyer, Yolanda Hiriart and David Mortimor (ed. by) Frontiers in the Economics of Environmental Regulation and Liability Ashgate, 2006, pp. 19-63 and in Global Law Working Papers No. 09, 2004.
  • “A different reason for ‘De-Coasing’ environmental Law and Economics” 25 European Journal of Law and Economics, 2005.
  • “Analisi Economica del Diritto” (Economic Analysis of Law) Enciclopedia Giuridica, Giuffrè, (coauthored with Roberto Pardolesi), 2002, 7-20.
  • “Controlling environmental risk in Europe: the complementary role of an EC environmental liability regime” 01-2 Tijdschrift voor Milieu en Recht, 2001, 37-45.
  • “Metodologie di valutazione dell’impatto della regolamentazione: il ruolo dell’analisi costi-benefici” (Methodologies for regulatory impact analysis: the role of cost-benefit analysis) 02 Mercato, Concorrenza, Regole, (coauthored with Roger Van den Bergh), 2001, 223-356. “European Union Law: Italy 2000”, The International Lawyer – Foreign Law Year – Review, several co-authors, 2001.
  • “Product Safety Regulation”, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Ed. by Bouckaert, B. and De Geest, G., Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1999, 329-346.

    • SSRN Author page

    http://ssrn.com/author=109637