Fundamentals of Regulation

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2013:

Applicants without legal qualifications should note that subjects are offered in the discipline of law at an advanced graduate level. While every effort will be made to meet the needs of students trained in other fields, concessions will not be made in the general level of instruction or assessment. Most subjects assume the knowledge usually acquired in a degree in law (LLB, JD or equivalent). Applicants should note that admission to some subjects in the Melbourne Law Masters will be dependent upon the individual applicant’s educational background and professional experience.

The Melbourne Law Masters welcomes applications from students with disabilities. The inherent academic requirements for study in the Melbourne Law Masters are:

• The ability to attend a minimum of 75% of classes and actively engage in the analysis and critique of complex materials and debate;
• The ability to read, analyse and comprehend complex written legal materials and complex interdisciplinary materials;
• The ability to clearly and independently communicate in writing a knowledge and application of legal principles and interdisciplinary materials and to critically evaluate these;
• The ability to clearly and independently communicate orally a knowledge and application of legal principles and interdisciplinary materials and critically evaluate these;
• The ability to work independently and as a part of a group;
• The ability to present orally and in writing legal analysis to a professional standard.

Students who feel their disability will inhibit them from meeting these inherent academic requirements are encouraged to contact the Disability Liaison Unit: www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

This subject examines the processes and institutions associated with regulatory governance in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Topics covered include: the regulatory State; counterproductive regulation; setting regulatory norms; monitoring and enforcement; alternatives to classical regulation; non-State regulatory governance; supranational regulation; regulatory accountability and reform.

Principal topics will include:

• Defining and explaining regulation
• Counterproductive regulation and unintended effects
• The regulatory State and regulatory institutions
• Setting regulatory norms
• Monitoring and enforcement
• Alternatives to classical regulation
• Regulation beyond the nation state
• Regulatory accountability and reform.

A student who has successfully completed this subject will:

• Distinguish competing conceptions of regulatory governance
• Offer explanations both for emergence of and variety in regulatory regimes
• Analyse different elements of regulatory governance and alternatives to classical regulation
• Make normative arguments concerning arrangements for regulatory regimes.

10,000 word research paper (100%) (14 October) on a topic approved by the subject coordinator

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.