About
Robert Baldwin is an Emeritus Professor of Law at LSE. He has written numerous books and learned articles on regulation , including the most widely used academic volume on regulation in the UK: Understanding Regulation (Oxford 1999 with Martin Cave). He has advised numerous corporations, international bodies , government departments and agencies on regulation and is a member of the National Audit Office's Panel of Regulatory Experts. He led the team that wrote the Scoping Study Report for the Government's Review of Legal Services Regulation as well as the team that wrote the DEFRA Review of Enforcement 2005-6.
Research
Research Interests
These centre on regulatory enforcement; the better regulation movement; and regulatory impact assessment processes.
Publications
Understanding Regulation 2nd edn. (Oxford University Press, 2012) (with Martin Lodge and Martin Cave)
Regulation is a key concern of industries, consumers, citizens, and governments alike. Building on the success of the first edition, Understanding Regulation, Second Edition provides the reader with an introduction to key debates and discussions in the field of regulation from a number of disciplinary perspectives, looking towards law, economics, business, political science, sociology, and social administration.
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The Oxford handbook of regulation. Oxford handbooks in business and management (Oxford University Press, 2010) (with Martin Lodge and Martin Cave)
Regulation is often thought of as an activity that restricts behaviour and prevents the occurrence of certain undesirable activities, but the influence of regulation can also be enabling or facilitative, as when a market could potentially be chaotic if uncontrolled. This Handbook provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the major trends and issues in regulation over the last thirty years, together with an outline of prospective developments. It brings together contributions from leading scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.
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The Government of Risk (Oxford University Press, 2001) (with C. Hood and H. Rothstein).
Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are some risks regulated aggressively and others responded to only modestly? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? These key questions are explored in The Government of Risk. This book looks at a number of risk regulation regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified.
Analyzing regulation in terms of 'regimes' allows us to see the rich, multi-dimensional nature of risk regulation. It exposes the thinness of society-wide analyses of risk controls and it offers a perspective that single case studies cannot reach. Regimes analysis breaks down the components of risk regulation systems and shows how they interact. It also shows how different parts of the same regime may be shaped by different factors and have to be explained and understood in quite different ways. The Government of Risk shows how such an approach is of high policy relevance as well as of considerable theoretical importance.
- 'Driving priorities in risk-based regulation: what's the problem?' J. Law & Soc. 2016, 43(4), 565-595 (with Julia Black)
- 'From Regulation to Behaviour Change: Giving Nudge the Third Degree' Modern Law Review 77 (6) (2014) pp.831-857
- 'Risk regulation and transnationality: institutional accountability as a driver of innovation' Transnational Environmental Law 2014, 3(2), pp.373-390 (with Julia Black and Gerard O'Leary)
- 'Regulatory stability and the challenges of re-regulation' Public Law (2014) Apr. pp.208-228
- 'When Risk-Based Regulation Aims Low: Challenges and Approaches' (2012) 6 Regulation and Governance pp.2-22 (with Julia Black)
- 'When risk-based regulation aims low: a strategic framework' (2012) 6 Regulation and Governance (2). pp. 131-148 (with Julia Black)
- 'Really Responsive Risk-Based Regulation' Law and Policy 32 (2) 2010, pp.181-213 (with Julia Black)
- 'Really Responsive Regulation' (2008) 71(1) Modern Law Review 59-94. (with Julia Black)
- 'Regulation Lite' (2008) 2 Regulation and Governance 193 - 215; (2008) 2 Law and Financial Markets Review 262-278
- 'Better Regulation: Tensions Aboard the Enterprise' in S. Weatherill (Ed.) Better Regulation ( Hart, Oxford, 2007)
- 'Better Regulation in Troubled Times' (2006) Health Economics Policy and Law 1: 203-207
- 'Is Better Regulation Smarter Regulation?' (2005) Public Law 485-511
- 'Regulating Legal Services: Time for the Big Bang?' (with K. Malleson and M. Cave) (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 787-817.
- 'The New Punitive Regulation' (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 351-383.
- 'Legislation and Rulemaking' in P. Cane and M Tushnet (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (Oxford University Press, 2003).
- Description of regulatory approaches to assessing the effectiveness of regulatory activities at low-risk sites and proposed good practice framework : Phase 2 report (SNIFFER, August 2011)
- The Inspector at the Door: 2005 (with R. Anderson :London: Federation of Small Businesses, 2005 ISBN 0-906779-45-6).
- Better Regulation: Is It Better for Business (London: Federation of Small Businesses, 2004).ISBN 0-906779-39-1
- Scoping Study for Regulating Legal Services (with K Malleson and M. Cave) ( London : Lord Chancellor's Department , 2003).
- Rethinking Regulatory Risk (with R. Anderson, London : DLA 2002)
- 'A Risk Framework for Regulatory Accountability' ( London : CRI, 2001.)
Engagement and impact
- Robert Baldwin is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Health Economics Policy and Law and of Law Probability and Risk
- He is a Member of the NAO Panel of Experts on Regulation and the Scottish Executive's Research Committee on Legal Services. He is a Commissioner of Appeal in the State of Guernsey's Regulatory Appeal Tribunal.
- He led the team that produced the Scoping Study Report for the Clementi Review of Legal Services Regulation ( DCA 2005-6)
- He also led DEFRA's Review of Enforcement 2005-6
- As Director of the LSE's Short Course on Regulation he has designed, organized and delivered training courses on regulation for a number of governments, including those of Ireland, South Africa and Jordan. The regulation courses run at the LSE now have a worldwide reputation and twice yearly offer training to participants from governments and corporations from all over the globe.