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MPUP Seminar: Regulatory Crises: Regulatory Encounters with Disaster, A Multi-disciplinary Approach

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Date:

28 Mar 2017

Time:

4:30pm

Venue:

LT5, 2/F, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

Speaker(s):

Professor Bridget M. Hutter, Professor of Risk Regulation, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Biography of Speaker:

Bridget M. Hutter is Professor of Risk Regulation in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is former Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation and author of numerous publications on the subject of risk regulation. She has an international reputation for her work on compliance, regulatory enforcement and business risk management. Recent book publications include Anticipating Risks and Organizing Regulation (Editor, 2010, Cambridge University Press); Managing Food Safety and Hygiene: Governance and Regulation as Risk Management (2011, Edward Elgar). Two books are forthcoming: Regulatory Crisis: Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises (with Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law (Editor, Edward Elgar, forthcoming). She is regularly involved in policy making discussions, with international bodies, business organizations and regulatory agencies.

Admission:

https://goo.gl/forms/nbICmWUqyGkqsBhx1 (first-come-first-served)

Enquiries:

publicpolicy@cuhk.edu.hk / 3943 8161

Synopsis of Lecture:

This presentation will take disasters as a context for examining questions about risk regulation. It introduces the notion of a regulatory crisis and considers how risk events can also become ‘critical moments’ of disruption to regulatory authorities. These are moments that can test, redefine and re-form regulatory regimes. The presentation will draw on different examples to examine the very different circumstances that can lead a regulatory crisis. It will also discuss how the research has been undertaken from multi-disciplinary perspectives.