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New approaches to regulatory inquiry and methodology

Date Thursday, 22 February 2007
Time 10 am – 1.30 pm
Venue Meeting Room Level 3
Building S, Monash University
Caulfield Campus
Registration contact Leanne Hunt
Tel: + 61 3 9903 - 4198
Email Leanne Hunt

Seminar program


10.00 – 10.45 am Topic: What is regulation?
George Gilligan 
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University		 Regulation is essentially the means by which societies seek to ensure organisation, safety, choice and freedom for their members.  The regulatory role of the state has been changing in recent years and new ways of analysing regulation such as decentered approaches, and an emphasis on meta-regulation, have emerged to take account of the effects of such change.  This presentation discusses these developments and some of the tensions in contemporary debates on regulation.

10.45 – 11.30 am Topic: Researching Regulatory Enforcement and Corporate Compliance
Christine Parker
Associate Professor and Reader
Faculty of Law
The University of Melbourne		 Christine will use her research into corporate compliance regimes to explain how methodology supports regulatory inquiry. Over the last ten years her research questions and methodologies evolved from qualitative research on internal regulatory compliance systems to an attempt to use a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the impact of regulatory enforcement action on corporate perceptions of compliance and compliance practices. She will explain this evolution and some of the difficulties and lessons learned along the way.

Morning coffee break: 30 minutes

12.00 – 12.45 pm Topic: Labour Law as Labour Market Regulation
Chris Arup
Professor
Department of Business Law and Taxation
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University		 With the demise of centrally and collectively determined employment standards, scholars must find another way to study labour law.  Regulatory studies offers assistance through its willingness to accept diversity and fluidity in the mix of public/private, inducement/command and legal/non-legal regulation. Such assistance starts with the purposes or objectives of regulation and extends to the strategies and instruments of regulation. Reporting on recent collaborative research, Chris will show how a regulatory perspective can widen the breadth of legal studies, especially in understanding the role of regulation in constituting labour markets.

12.45 – 1.30 pm Topic: Regulating competition under international trade agreements especially the WTO
Dr Brendan Sweeney
Senior Lecturer
Department of Business Law and Taxation
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University		  

Director

Professor John Gillespie
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(from left to right, Dr Georgy Zheng, Prof Soogeun Oh, Prof John Gillespie, Jacob Gammelgard (Director JOPSO Project), Ass. Prof. Dr Nguyen Phat, Prof HP Lee)
  
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