Saraceno Awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship
Margherita Saraceno's project (Paolo Baffi Centre) "Economics for Access to Justice" has won a research grant within the European funding plan Marie Curie Actions. Saraceno, whose project has been selected within the Intra-European Fellowships Programme (IEF), will be Marie Curie Fellow at Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics for two years, starting from September.
Marie Curie Actions are European research grants available to researchers regardless of their nationality and field of research, in the belief that the broadening of their scientific skills helps to make the economic system more competitive. IEF program (ruled by the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development), provides European researchers with a doctoral degree or at least 4 years' research experience financial support to develop an individual research project on the basis of their 'personal career development plan', within a European institution and for a period of 12-24 months.
"My research project aims to apply the traditional tools of economic analysis to the issues related to access to justice", Saraceno explains. "Though considered a fundamental support for socio-economic advancement, especially in poor or developing countries, yet access to justice too often remains a mere statement of principle, even in developed countries. The huge volume of cases which overloads the legal system, moreover, aggravates its diseconomies and inefficiencies".
"My project", Saraceno finishes, "is just aimed at deepening the trade-off between widening access to justice and reducing the legal cases and at assessing its many complex policy implications".