LL434E      Half Unit
Regulation: Strategies and Enforcement

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Prof Veerle Heyvaert

Availability

This course is available on the Executive Master of Laws (ELLM). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Available to Executive LLM students only. This course will be offered on the Executive LLM during the four year degree period. The Law School will not offer all Executive LLM courses every year, although some of the more popular courses may be offered in each year, or more than once each year. Please note that whilst it is the Law School's intention to offer all Executive LLM courses, its ability to do so will depend on the availability of the staff member in question. For more information please refer to the Law School website. 

Course content

The course examines the key issues of regulatory strategies and their implementation. It deals with regulation from a systemic and comparative perspective and draws on approaches encountered in public administration, socio-legal studies and institutional economics. Topics include: what is Regulation and why do we regulate; varieties in regulation Strategies – from  Command-and-control to nudging and self-regulation; risk regulation as a regulatory paradigm and its discontents; regulatory impacts assessment; regulatory enforcement strategies; regulatory competition; and the contribution of transnational regulation.

Teaching

24-26 hours of contact time.

Formative assessment

Students will have the option of producing a formative exam question of 2000 words to be delivered one month from the end of the module’s teaching session by email.

 

Indicative reading

R. Baldwin, M. Cave and M. Lodge, Understanding Regulation, 2nd ed. (OUP, 2011); R. Baldwin, M. Cave and M. Lodge (ed.) Oxford Handbook on Regulation (OUP, 2012); R. Baldwin, C. Hood and C. Scott, Socio-Legal Reader on Regulation (OUP, 1998); Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate by Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite (OUP, 1992); V. Heyvaert, Transnational Environmental Regulation (CUP, 2018)

Assessment

Assessment Pathway 1

Essay (100%, 8000 words)

Assessment Pathway 2

Legal problems (100%)


Key facts

Department: LSE Law School

Course Study Period: Autumn Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 7

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: Unavailable

Average class size 2024/25: Unavailable

Controlled access 2024/25: No
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