Abstract
Institutional Review Board (IRB) are independent institutions aimed at approving, monitoring and reviewing human experimentations in order to protect research subjects’ rights from the necessity to increase the current medical knowledge.
After a brief historical introduction of humans experimentation, this section presents American and European regulation of this specific institution, as well the main related issues in Law and Economics.
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Ippoliti, R. (2019). Institutional Review Board. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_197
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