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From Regulatory Capture to Regulatory Space?

 

The root of the problem was an intellectual or moral failure to identify, follow up, and contain concentrations of risk
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Experiences of Law in Contemporary Russia

A report of a workshop exploring popular attitudes to law in contemporary Russia. The analysis covers two research projects into the changing perceptions, increasing workload, and other challenges...

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The End of Press Freedom

The fourth and final policy brief from our series assessing the progress of the Leveson Inquiry and the future of media regulation sees the Director of the ...

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Rights, Interests, and the Water Resource: Crossing the Rubicon?

This policy brief discusses the fitness for purpose of rights-based approaches to the freshwater resource, and the increasing significance of climate change and population...

Integrated Water Resources Management and the Right to Water Security

The purpose of this policy brief is to reflect upon global objectives for water management and the way that these relate to national concerns about water in the United Kingdom...

From Regulatory Capture to Regulatory Space?

The policy brief revisits the idea of regulatory capture to explore the influences that changed financial sector regulation, including new ideological currents, changes in...

Experiences of Law in Contemporary Russia

In the wake of renewed speculation regarding the rule of law in today's Russia raised by the death of Boris Berezovsky, we publish a report to identify the actual experience of...

Constitutions and the Classics: Coke, Blackstone, and Rousseau

This report assesses the contribution to constitutional thought of Edward Coke, William Blackstone, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Are Courts Representative Bodies? A Canadian Perspective

In this policy brief, Judge Robert Sharpe of the Court of Appeal for Ontario argues that it would be wrong for judges exercising the power of judicial review to claim...

The End of Press Freedom

The fourth and final policy brief from our series assessing the progress of the Leveson Inquiry and the future of media regulation sees the Director of the ...

The Russian Socio-Legal Tradition

The second report from our three-part series on Russian legal culture traces the evolution of the socio-legal tradition from imperial times to the present, to shed new light on...

(Mis)Understanding American Federalism: On constitutions, collective action, competition, and quiescence

American federalism is often lauded for promoting democratic participation and accountability, but this view neglects the ways in which it actually structures day-to-day...

Federalism and Its Discontents: The limits of New Institutionalism

From post-conflict Iraqi federalism to the decentralist teachings of the World Bank in the developing world, comparative federalism has found increasingly vibrant applications...

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