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Understanding Regulatory Change in East Asia -- Clayton

Published: 24 September 2008

Most research about regulatory change in East Asia adopts a narrow outlook that equates regulation with a modernist, Weberian form of the rule of law. It measures regulatory change in terms of movement towards or away from some kind of rule of law. Professor Gillespie argues that regulatory systems in East Asia (and elsewhere in the developing world) are polycentric and the rule of law is only one of many regulatory sub-systems. Developing states may tightly control political and civil arenas, but generally lack the resources or will to force compliance with commercial laws. Professor Gillespie's research uses an interdisciplinary blending of traditional comparative legal studies, institutional sociology and systems theory to examine at a series of case studies about entrepreneurs in South East China and Northern Vietnam, attempting to understand why entrepreneurs may prefer self-regulation to the rule of law.

RSVP: RSVP is essential for the above seminar as a light lunch will be provided. RSVP to Meli Voursoukis, +61 3 9905 4135 or meli.voursoukis@law.monash.edu.au
Time: 1.10 pm
Date: Tuesday 7 October, 2008
Venue: Law Staff Library, Clayton campus [R215].