Published November 19, 2012
by afdubreu
Professor Julia Black
with commentary by
Professors Burkard Eberlein (Schulich), Errol Meidinger (Buffalo), and
Stepan Wood (Osgoode)
A growing volume of business regulation, from accounting standards to sustainable fisheries certification, emanates from a heterogeneous array of non-state and hybrid public-private actors and institutions operating in a dynamic, transnational regulatory space. As these initiatives proliferate, they increasingly interact with one another and with state-based regimes, generating complex governance ensembles. Heterogeneous actors and institutions interact at multiple levels in various ways, from mimicry and cooperation to competition and conflict. This phenomenon of transnational business governance interactions (TBGI) is ripe for systematic study. What are the forms and drivers of TBGI? What are its implications for regulatory capacity, regulatory performance and the impacts of regulation on social and environmental problems? To gain purchase on these complex issues, Professor Black will offer an original analytical framework that disaggregates the regulatory process, focusing on the points at which interactions may occur and suggesting, for each point, a series of analytical questions that probe the key features of TBGI. The paper on which the talk is based is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2152720. Professor Black will be accompanied by three of her co-authors, who will provide brief commentary. The paper is part of the interdisciplinary TBGI Project, co-led by Stepan Wood (Osgoode), Kenneth Abbott (Arizona State), Julia Black, Burkard Eberlein (Schulich) and Errol Meidinger (U. Buffalo). The TBGI project is housed by IRIS.
Julia Black is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Director of the Department’s Law and Financial Market Project and a research associate of the LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation. She joined the Law Department in 1994 having completed her first degree in Jurisprudence and her DPhil at Oxford University. Her primary research interest is to explore the nature, dynamics and legitimacy of regulatory regimes, both state and non-state. She also specialises in financial services regulation, and in the regulation of risk. She has written extensively on regulatory issues in a number of areas, and has advised policy makers, consumer bodies and regulators on issues of institutional design and regulatory policy in the UK and overseas, including the OECD, the UK National Audit Office, the environment agencies of the UK and Ireland, the Legal Services Board, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority, the Financial Services Authority, the Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the Law Commission of England and Wales, the Taskforce to Reform Securities Regulation in Canada and the Australian Law Reform Commission. She also runs executive training courses in regulation and in financial services and markets regulation. Julia was a member the Steering Group for the Better Regulation Executive's Penalties Review and of the Department of Health Working Party developing a Common Framework of Principles for the direct sale to consumers of genetic tests. She was recently appointed to the board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, to commence in January 2014.
All are invited to attend.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP:
adrgs@osgoode.yorku.ca
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