The philosophical underpinnings of regulation are examined in an historical and institutional context. The subject provides students with a granular understanding of the rationale for regulation. It focuses on the interdependent, dynamic and contested inter-relationship between the state, civil society and the market in both regulatory design and calibration. The first part of the course examines differing modes of regulation, including command and control, co-regulation and self-regulation. The second component of the course focuses on contemporary challenges facing financial regulatory regimes.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.
HD/FL
One session
School of Management and Marketing
MGT548
- be able to detail and critically discuss the fundamental doctrines, principles and features of regulation, including design, implementation and enforcement;
- be able to detail and critically discuss how sources of corporate governance codes, in both rules and principle based jurisdictions impact on regulatory capability.;
- be able to demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of a wide range of legal concepts, values, principles and to explain the relationship between them in the field of financial governance;
- be able to critically discuss the wider socio-legal context in which corporations and the markets in which they operate are governed.
- Introduction: what is regulation?
- Forms of regulation
- The dynamics of regulatory policy: the impact of governance
- The challenge of self regulation
- Organizational complexity and regulatory certainty
- Rules vs. principles
- The structure of Australian financial regulation
- Regulatory strategies: from persuasion to coercion
- Applying the regulatory pyramid
- The future of regulation
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The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2019. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.