Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Gobal World addresses some complex regulatory questions and contributes to the ongoing task of improving regulatory outcomes.
Regulation affects all aspects of life yet a detailed understanding of how to create and maintain effective regulation remains challenging.
Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Gobal World addresses some complex regulatory questions and contributes to the ongoing task of improving regulatory outcomes.
The book contains 15 chapters divided into four parts:
Global Connectedness
The Public Voice and Consumer Behaviour
The Careful Art of Reducing Uncertain Outcomes
The Institutions of Regulatory Regimes
Each chapter provides recommendations or frameworks pertaining to how New Zealand could achieve smarter regulation. This book develops the detailed issues and discussion that laid the foundation for the New Zealand Law Foundation’s Regulatory Reform Project, found in Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand (2011).
This text will be of interest to those who are interested in improving regulation for a globally connected New Zealand.
The Web of Trade Agreements and Alliances, and Impacts on Regulatory AutonomySusy Frankel, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley
Regulating FDI in New Zealand - Further AnalysisDaniel Kalderimis
The Challenges of Trans-Tasman Intellectual Property Co-ordination Susy Frankel, Megan Richardson, Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley
Competition Law and Policy: Can a Generalist Law be an Effective Regulator?Paul Scott
PART II: The Public Voice and Consumer Behaviour
Public Participation in New Zealand's Regulatory Context Mark Bennett and Joel I Colón-Ríos
Consumer Law and Paternalism: A framework for policy decision making Kate Tokeley
The Regulation of Consumer Credit Products - Interrogating Assumptions about the Objects of Regulation Graeme Austin
PART III: The Careful Art of Reducing Uncertain Outcomes
Defining the Ambit of Regulatory Takings Richard Boast and Susy Frankel
General Anti-avoidance Rules as Regulatory Rules of the Fiscal System: Suggestions for Improvements to the New Zealand General Anti-avoidance RuleJohn Prebble
Telecommunications and Electricity Industries: Uncertainty and Regulation Paul Scott
Weathertight buildings. What lessons can be drawn from a complicated and evolving situation? Mike Hensen and James Zucello
PART IV: The Institutions of the Regulatory Regime
When is an Act of Parliament an Appropriate Form of Regulation? Petra Butler
Administrative Law through a Regulatory Lens: Situating Judicial Adjudication within a Wider Accountability Framework Dean Knight and Rayner Thwaites
Applying the Logic of Regulatory Management to Regulatory Management in New Zealand Derek Gill
Susy Frankel is a Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the premier global association of academics who work on intellectual property related research and teaching. Since 2008 she has been Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of World Intellectual Property Law and the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and has been a visiting professor at universities around the world. She publishes and teaches across all areas of intellectual property law including patents, copyright, trade marks, international intellectual property and international trade law.