Overview
- Comprehensive overview of the marketing authorization regulation in Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical in Europe
- Significant contribution to our current understanding
- Detailed step by step guidance on the methodology for conducting a sociolegal case study
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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One of the primary functions of law is to ensure that the legal structure governing all social relations is predictable, coherent, consistent and applicable. Taken together, these characteristics of law are referred to as legal certainty. In traditional approaches to legal certainty, law is regarded as a hierarchical system of rules characterized by stability, clarity, uniformity, calculable enforcement, publicity and predictability. However, the current reality is that national legal systems no longer operate in isolation, but within a multilevel legal order, wherein norms created at both the international and regional level are directly applicable to national legal systems. Also, norm creation is no longer the exclusive prerogative of public officials of the state: private actors have an increasing influence on norm creation as well. Social scientists have referred to this phenomenon of interacting and overlapping competences as multilevel governance. Only recently have legal scholars focused attention on the increasing interconnectedness (and therefore the concomitant loss of primacy of national legal orders) between the global, European and national regulatory spheres through the concept of multilevel regulation.
In this project the author uses multilevel regulation as a term to characterize a regulatory space in which the process of rule making, rule enforcement and rule adjudication (the regulatory lifecycle) is dispersed across more than one administrative or territorial level and amongst several different actors, both public and private. The author draws on the concept of a regulatory space, using it as a framing device to differentiate between specific aspects of policy fields. The relationship between actors in such a space is non-hierarchical and they may be independent of each other. The lack of central ordering of the regulatory lifecycle within this regulatory space is the most important feature of such a space. The implications of multilevel regulation for the notion of legal certainty have attracted limited attention from scholars and the demand for legal certainty in regulatory practice is still a puzzle. The book explores the idea of legal certainty in terms of the perceptions and expectations of regulatees in the context of medical products – specifically, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, which can be differentiated as two regulatory spaces and therefore form two case studies. As an exploratory project, the book necessarily explores new territory in terms of investigating legal certainty first in terms of regulatee perceptions and expectations and second, because it studies it in the context of multilevel regulation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Regulation of Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals
Book Subtitle: Regulatee Expectations of Legal Certainty
Authors: Nupur Chowdhury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04594-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04593-1Published: 15 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35321-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04594-8Published: 29 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 185
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, European Integration, International Economic Law, Trade Law, Medical Law, Pharmacy