Lawrence Baxter contributes a chapter to a new report on financial regulation

Jul 242012
 

Lawrence Baxter has written a chapter in a new International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) report “The Making of Good Financial Regulation: Towards a Policy Response to Regulatory Capture“. Baxter’s chapter “Understanding Regulatory Capture: An Academic Perspective from the United States” offers an academic lens to the discussion of capture in financial regulation, proposing five principles for promoting transparency and accountability in the regulatory process.

 July 24, 2012

Jonathan Wiener leads World Congress on Risk

Jul 162012
 

Jonathan Wiener serves this summer as the co-chair for the the 2012 World Congress on Risk (WCR). This is the third in the series of World Congresses on Risk, held every 4 years. The WCR is organized by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), the international scientific and professional society of experts from multiple disciplines and countries on risk assessment, risk management, risk perception and communication. Wiener was president of SRA in 2008 (the only law professor or lawyer elected to serve as SRA president). You can find a full agenda for the conference, speaker bios and other information at the a href=”http://sra.org/worldcongress2012″>2012 World Congress on Risk website.

 July 16, 2012
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