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Responsive Regulation In Context, Circa 2011, Cristie Ford, Natasha Affolder
Responsive Regulation In Context, Circa 2011, Cristie Ford, Natasha Affolder
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In the fall of 2010, the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law welcomed a group of scholars from around the world to consider the state and evolution of responsive regulation, in both theory and practice. The occasion was the presence of Dr. John Braithwaite, the faculty's inaugural Fasken Martineau Senior Visiting Scholar.' Given that we are on the cusp of the twentieth anniversary of Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite's seminal book, Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate,' it is appropriate that this issue begins with John Braithwaite's own reflections on the responsive regulation project. On one level, the set …
Why Study Large Projects? Environmental Regulation’S Neglected Frontier, Natasha Affolder
Why Study Large Projects? Environmental Regulation’S Neglected Frontier, Natasha Affolder
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Large-scale natural resource and infrastructure projects create some of the most challenging and high-stakes contexts for environmental regulation. Witness the heated debates surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline project. But to date, large projects have attracted relatively little sustained interest from scholars of environmental law and regulation. Case studies stand alone as valuable empirical accounts of individual pipelines, dams, and mining projects. But synthesis of these case studies is lacking. A workshop that celebrates the approaching 20th year anniversary of Ian Ayres’ and John Braithwaite’s 1992 book, Responsive Regulation, provides an opportune moment to reflect on this lacuna in environmental regulatory …