Fundamental Issues in Regulation
Workshop
Friday 1st March 2013
Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Oxford
Participant Biographies
John W. Adams is the Chairman and founder of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and based at Wolfson College Oxford, whose objective is to study the role of law in contemporary societies and to bring the fruits of academic research to a wider professional audience. He was a Captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the US Air Force and thereafter was in private law practice for 12 years. From 1984 to 2004, John was President of Smith Management Company, a New York based investment firm with investments located throughout the world.
He has a BA from Rutgers College, a JD from Seton Hall Law School, and an LLM from New York University. In 2001 John enjoyed a sabbatical at Oxford University where he was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Political Science department of Rutgers University.
Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, Oxford. Professor Galligan is also Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Law at the Universita’ degliStudi di Siena and is a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Previous posts include a Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College Oxford and chairs at Southampton University and Sydney University. For several years he was a Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest.
Professor Galligan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and based at Wolfson College Oxford, whose objective is to study the role of law in contemporary societies and bring the fruits of academic research to a wider professional audience.
Max Watson is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a member of the board of the FLJS. He also directs a programme on the Political Economy of Financial Markets at the European Studies Centre of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was until recently a Director of the Central Bank of Ireland and of the consultancy John Howell & Co Ltd. In 2003-7, he was adviser on financial stability to the Director General of Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission. Previously, he was at the IMF, where he was successively head of the International Capital Markets Division; a senior adviser on Europe; and a Deputy Director of the Fund. His early career was spent at the Bank of England.
Max Watson's recent publications include: From Crisis to Recovery: Sustainable Growth in South East Europe, co-edited with OthonAnastasakis and Jens Bastian (European Studies Centre, Oxford, 2011); Are there Speed Limits to Real Convergence? with IstvanSzekely, in Real Convergence in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); IMF Surveillance in Europe: Progress in Refocusing (IMF, July 2008); andLaying the Financial Foundations for the Euro a book co-edited with Lars Jonung and Christoph Walkner (Palgrave Macmillan, June 2008).
Robert Baldwin is a Professor of Law at the LSE where he teaches Regulation and Criminal Law at undergraduate and graduate levels. He started his research career at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford.He has published widely on regulation and acted as a consultant to such bodies as the Health and Safety Executive, the European Commission, the International LabourOrganisation, and HM Treasury. He has been a member of the National Audit Office Committee of Regulation Experts for the last six years where he has focused on the NAO’s reviews of the UK’s Regulatory Impact Assessment processes.
His books include: Regulating the Airlines, (Oxford University Press, 1985); Rules and Government, (Oxford University Press, 1995); Law and Uncertainty (Kluwer, 1996); Understanding Regulation, (Oxford University Press, Second Edition 2011 with Martin Cave and Martin Lodge); The Government of Risk (Oxford University Press, 2001 with Christopher Hood and Henry Rothstein); and The Oxford Handbook of Regulation (Oxford University Press, edited with Martin Cave and Martin Lodge).
Chris Decker is Research Director at the Regulatory Policy Institute, Oxford and an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. His principal area of research is on theeconomic regulation of the utility sectors, and he is currently finishing a monograph on Modern Economic Regulation, which provides an account of how (economic) regulatory theory and practice relating to the utility sectors has evolved since the 1980’s. Chris’ current work is focused on the application of economics, and the use of economic evidence, in regulatory processes (including by Courts and Tribunals) and in competition law enforcement. This includes examining how economic objectives are reconciled with other public policy objectives, such as social and environmental objectives.
Prior to returning to Oxford in 2007, ChriswasaPrincipalEconomic Advisorat the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (‘ACCC’). He has acted as an independent economic advisor to the UK energy regulator (Ofgem) and the ACCC, and was a member of the panel of experts for the UK Civil Aviation Authority and the Commission for Energy Regulation (Ireland). Chris has publishedresearch studies and reports across a range of regulated activities (energy, water, telecommunications, transport, financial services, environmental regulation and the regulation of the professions). These studies have been for, or submitted to: the OECD; the European Commission; the European Central Bank, and regulatory and government agencies in Australia, Argentina, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Karen Yeung is a Professor of Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London. Her research lies in the field of regulation and governance, exemplified in the book which she co-authored with Bronwen Morgan entitled An Introduction to Law and Regulation (Cambridge University Press 2007). This book sets out to provide a conceptual map to those who are new to the field of regulation as well as a helpful resource for established scholars, drawing from a range of perspectives in law and the social sciences. Her methodological approach is interdisciplinary orientation, drawing on a range of social-scientific disciplines (including politics, economics and sociology) whilst giving prominence to law, legal norms and institutions.
After ten years as a University Lecturer at Oxford University and a Law Fellow at St Anne’s College, she joined King’s in 2006 to help establish the Centre for Technology, Law & Society (‘TELOS’) within the Law School, of which she is now Director. TELOS aims to deepen scholarly and public understanding of the benefits, risks and regulatory challenges associated with modern technologies. The focus of her current work has two strands: one concerning the role of technology as a regulatory policy instrument, with a particular concern to explore the ways in which ‘design’ or ‘architecture’ can be employed as a means for shaping social policy outcomes, and the second, exploring the role of regulatory policy instruments, particularly those of a technological kind, to maintain and promote public health.
Frank Vibert is currently Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Founder Director of the European Policy Forum – a London based Think Tank. He has been a Senior Advisor at the World Bank and a Senior Fellow at UNU/WIDER. He writes extensively on regulatory and institutional issues. Publications include Democracy & Dissent: The Challenge of International Rule Making, (Edward Elgar 2011) and The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers,(Cambridge University Press 2007). He is currently writing a book on the concept of the regulatory space.
Bettina Lange joined the Oxford Law Faculty and Wolfson College in July 2007, having previously worked in the law departments of Aberystwyth and Keele University. She trained in law and sociology at Warwick University and before that studied law for two years at the Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany. Her research examines legal regulation from a socio-legal perspective.
Bettina was a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy from September 2004 to January 2005. She has conducted consultancy for the Environment Agency in England and Wales and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Environmental Law of Landmark Chambers. Her core research interests are: EU, UK and German environmental regulation; qualitative empirical socio-legal research methods, including discourse analysis; the application of new modes of European governance to education policies; and socio-legal theories of regulation, including the role of emotions in regulatory processes. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the ESRC, the SLSA and the John-Fell Fund. She serves on the editorial board of Law and Policy, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the European Journal of Risk Regulation.
KiraMatus is a Lecturer in Public Policy and Management in the Department of Government at the LSE, where she is part of the Comparative Public Policy and Regulation group, and a research associate at CARR. Prior to joining the LSE, Dr Matus was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering.
Her research focuses on the application of innovative technology to address sustainable development, and she is Co-Project Director of the Harvard Project on Innovation and Access to Technology for Sustainable Development. She is also doing research on voluntary regulation, especially the role of standards and certification, in the development of green technologies. She received her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2009, where she was a doctoral fellow in sustainability science in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Center for International Development from 2007 to 2009, and from 2007-2009, she was a recipient of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results Graduate Fellowship. DrMatus also has an SM in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a ScB in Chemistry from Brown University.
Thomas O’Riordan is a barrister retained as a consultant by US Law firm Paul Hastings LLP based in their London office. MrO’Riordan works with lawyers and clients in relation to all aspects of e-banking, payment services and systems and new e-banking products against a background of global regulation.
Alain Jeunemaitre is Director of Research at EcolePolytechnique France and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. From 1988 to 2003, he has held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, Hertford College, Nuffield College and the MaisonFrançaised’Oxford. He has been attached to the CSL since 2004 with PhD visiting studentships at the Centre and lecturing to the BCL/MJur. option on ‘Regulation’.
He is an expert to the European Commission –DGTREN/SESAR JU – and as such has carried out studies under the Single European Sky initiative on economic regulation and institutional design 2001, 2003, and 2008.
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