units

LAW5362

Faculty of Law

18 September 2017 27 April 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Law
OfferedCity (Melbourne) Term 3 2015 (Day)

Notes

For postgraduate Law discontinuation dates, please see http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/postgraduate/pg-disc-dates.html
For postgraduate Law unit timetables, please see http://law.monash.edu.au/current-students/course-unit-information/timetables/postgraduate/index.html
Previously coded as LAW7315

Quota applies

Postgraduate programs are based on a model of small group teaching and therefore class sizes need to be restricted.

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to the range of instruments which can be used by regulators to obtain compliance. While it mixes theory and practice, it is oriented towards the practical application of regulatory methods and examines their strengths and weaknesses, the empirical evidence as to their effectiveness and the dangers in their use. Topics covered will include: regulation and regulatory design; state regulations versus social regulation; taxonomies of regulatory methods; input versus output-based regulation; rewards and incentives; choosing the best methods; ordering methods; regulatory impact statements; trust, technology and information; and economic, market and private regulation.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  • apply knowledge and understanding of the concept of regulatory design with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice;
  • investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories in relation to the taxonomies of regulation;

conduct research into the major techniques of regulation and the tools available to implement them based on knowledge of appropriate research principle and methods; and

  • use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate at an abstract level complex ideas and concepts relevant to strengths and weaknesses of the regulatory techniques identified.

Assessment

Written essay (1,500 words): 20%
Written essay (6,000 words): 80%

Workload requirements

24 contact hours per semester (either intensive, semi-intensive or semester long, depending on the Faculty resources, timetabling and requirements)

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Arie Freiberg Research ProfileResearch Profile (http://monash.edu/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=5815&pid=3804)