Workshop on multi-level regulators: the challenge of accountability
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
What challenges are associated with the key issue of accountability in modern governance? In particular, what challenges does it pose in a) relation to regulation and regulatory policy in b) the multi-level system of the European Union? What do we know about? How can it be improved? How do practitioners perceive it and how do they deal with it? These are some of the questions that will be discussed at this event with the participation of three leading experts.
Contact name:
Daniel Parnell
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Prof Michelle Everson
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Professor Michelle Everson is well known throughout Europe for her wide-ranging research interests and policy-making advice in the sphere of European integration studies. Professor Everson has always researched at a complex interface between the EU ‘constitution’ & EU citizenship, EU markets & capital and EU institutional design (see, The Making of the EU Constitution: Judges and Lawyers Beyond Constitutive Power, Routledge 2007, ‘The Regulation of the Insurance Sector’, in Oxford Handbook for Financial Services (Moloney, Ferran, & Payne), OUP 2015, 'Independent Agencies: Hierarchy Beaters?,' (1995) 1:2 ELJ 180-204).
Recently, Professor Everson has deepened the theoretical underpinnings of her work in economic history & theory and in critical (economic) legal theory ((‘Franz Böhm: Private Law Society and Lessons for our Age’, in The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism (Biebricher, Bonefeld & Nedergaard (eds), OUP 2022 & ‘Facticity as validity: the misplaced revolutionary praxis of European law’ (Christodoulidis, Dukes & Goldoni (eds) Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory, Edward Elgar 2019). Her current research projects on the regulatory consequences of Brexit in the UK (UK in a Changing Europe Report (October 2022)), on the contrasting normative frameworks of EU & US markets (with ARENA, Norway) and on the legitimacy of the development of EU health policy (with University of Salzburg) build on this foundational research.
Professor Everson received her PhD from the European University Institute and has held posts in Italy, Germany (Centre for European Legal Policy, University of Bremen) and the UK. She has researched throughout Europe, holding various research grants from the German DFG, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. Most recently, Professor Everson helped lead the Jean Monnet network on European Regulatory Agencies, co-ordinated from Maastricht University (https://tarn.maastrichtuniversity.nl/).
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Prof. Ioannis Lianos
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Prof. Lianos holds the chair of global competition law and policy at UCL Laws. He is also Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society and Executive Director of the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics. He is also the current Head of Greece’s Competition Commission. His research focuses on the transformation of capitalism by the digital revolution, global value chains, competition law and policy in the digital era, financialisation and competition law, the intersection between economic sociology and regulation, the regulation of technology, in particular blockchain, and the intersection of competition law with data protection and labour regulation. He has also published research on the theory and history of competition law, EU law, in particular the the EU Internal Market, public policy (including impact assessments), utilities regulation, IP law, food law.
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Prof. Yannis Papadopoulos
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Professor Papadopoulos (Université de Lausanne) is a leading authority in the study of accountability in multi-level governance. He has written extensively on this issue (most recently for Cambridge University Press) and democratic governance, public policy analysis, public participation, MLG.