In this prestigious edited collection, an international group of leading contributors to the law of regulation take stock of the erosion of belief in centralised planning and command and control regulation which has accompanied the collapse of communism. They explore the new directions in regulatory theory which must now be pursued.

Sol Picciotto is Professor of Law and Head of the Law School at Lancaster University, and David Campbell is Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School and in the ESRC Research Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society.