Understanding Regulation, 2nd Edition

Review from previous edition It is an excellently constructed work, and provides much food for thought for the times in which we live.'New Law JournalThe book is well researched and written with enough conviction to make a valuable contribution in developing our understanding of the choices regulation presents us with and the potential of new regulatory arrangements going forward.‘Matthew Berry, Financial Adviser Careers Extra`Some of the material is very useful and not easily available in textbook form elsewhere … a good way of catching up on the reforms in a variety of policy sectors and thinking in different disciplines.‘Public Administration

Robert Baldwin is a Professor of Law at the LSE where he teaches Regulation and Criminal Law at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has published widely on regulation and has broad consultancy experience in regulation. His previous books include The Government of Risk (Oxford University Press, 2001 with Christopher Hood and Henry Rothstein). He is the Director of the LSE Short Course on Regulation. Martin Cave is a Visiting Professor at the ImperialCollege Business School. He was a member of the U.K. Competition Commission from 1996-2002. He has authored numerous works on economic regulation, and has very extensive experience of advising regulatory agenciessuch as Ofcom, OFWAT, the Office of Fair Trading, international institutions such as the European Commission and the OECD, and governments in several countries. Martin Lodge is Reader in Political Science and Public Policy at the LSE. His research and teaching interests are in the comparative study of Executive Government and Regulation.