{"id":13,"date":"2010-06-16T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2010-07-22T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:17:05","slug":"intellectual-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/intellectual-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an intensive, two day workshop centering around the work of Dr. John Braithwaite, inaugural Faskens Visiting Scholar, UBC Faculty of Law.\u00a0 The workshop focuses on Dr. Braithwaite\u2019s influential concept of \u201cResponsive Regulation,\u201d as he has developed it over the last two decades.\u00a0 We are approaching the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of his ground-breaking book (with Ian Ayres), Responsive Regulation<\/span> (1992).\u00a0 Both the imminent anniversary of the book and recent events make this an opportune moment to reflect on the influence and evolution of this world-changing regulatory approach.\u00a0 The design, participants, and timing of this workshop give it the potential to be a watershed event in regulatory studies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of the particular subject areas covered by the conference \u2013 financial regulation, environmental regulation, and taxation policy \u2013 are hot issues.\u00a0 The global financial crisis that peaked in fall 2008 laid bare the profound inadequacies in contemporary financial regulation.\u00a0 The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has highlighted some alarming regulatory shortcomings in the United States.\u00a0 These regulatory regimes were developed in the Responsive Regulation era, and sometimes bear a facial resemblance to that approach.\u00a0 Scholars and regulators are struggling to understand the implications of those real life failures for theory and practice.\u00a0 At the same time, Responsive Regulation has produced real and remarkable progress in environmental regulation, in workplace safety, and a broad range of other contexts.\u00a0 Taxation policy, as well, has recently begun to embrace the Responsive Regulatory approach in the service of more equitable, responsive, and representative taxation schemes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This workshop is designed to be interdisciplinary (with scholars from law, history, and sociology).\u00a0 It is also designed to allow for cross-pollination between subject matter areas and disciplines.\u00a0 The first and last panels of the workshop will focus on broader theoretical and regulatory design concerns, with a view to linking underlying themes across the two day event, and to drawing out conceptual relationships and overarching insights.\u00a0 In addition to participating scholars, to ensure that the discussion remains appropriately connected to live concerns, each subject matter panel will feature a high profile regulatory practitioner as a discussant and \u201cvoice from practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participating scholars are an international group, hailing from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Israel.\u00a0 Domestic scholarship and practice is enhanced by considering other regulatory regimes that are grappling with similar issues.\u00a0 Additionally, regulation, and scholarship about regulation, is increasingly global.\u00a0 Regulators regularly operate at transnational and international levels.\u00a0 Scholars of regulation publish in international journals and read one anothers\u2019 work.\u00a0 Challenges such as environmental and natural resource protection, or prospects for a global bank or carbon tax, span national boundaries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Workshop papers, along with a new paper by Dr. Braithwaite, will be published in a special edition of the UBC Law Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an intensive, two day workshop centering around the work of Dr. John Braithwaite, inaugural Faskens Visiting Scholar, UBC Faculty of Law.\u00a0 The workshop focuses on Dr. Braithwaite\u2019s influential concept of \u201cResponsive Regulation,\u201d as he has developed it over the last two decades.\u00a0 We are approaching the 20th anniversary of his ground-breaking book (with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2154,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}