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Regulation, Law and Government

Podcast

New Questions in Regulation: Panel Discussion

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Podcast

New Questions in Regulation: Regulatory Capture Revisited

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Policy Brief

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 Media Policy Project at the London School of Economics

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Policy Brief

The Risk vs Hazard Debate: Reconciling Inconsistencies in Health & Safety Regulation within the UK and across the EU

Dr Sweta Chakraborty reviews the current debate over health & safety regulation, representing the views of academics, regulators, government, and lawyers, including the British Safety Council and the Health and Safety Executive.

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Policy Brief

The Purposes, Organization, and Supervision of Regulators: Implications for Accountability and Liability

As recent events in the financial sector have demonstrated, the action or inaction of regulators can profoundly affect lives and livelihoods.

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Policy Brief

The Leveson Inquiry: There's a bargain to be struck over media freedom and regulation

The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice, and ethics of the British press was triggered when the phone-hacking scandal’s full scale became clear in July 2011 and closed the News of the World. But the inquiry has gone much wider than that, hearing evidence about accuracy, fairness, privacy, regulation, and law.

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Regulating for Communication

In this policy brief, political philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill responds to the debate over press regulation sparked by the phone hacking scandal by assessing the influential arguments in the liberal tradition that underpin claims for media freedoms.

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Policy Brief

Press Regulation: Taking account of media convergence

This policy brief by media expert Lara Fielden proposes a radical new framework for press regulation based on a comparative study of international press councils, which addresses what Lord Justice Leveson has described as the 'elephant in the room' of the Leveson Inquiry: regulation of online media.

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What should press regulation regulate?

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