Comparative law and regulation : Understanding the global regulatory process / edited by Francesca Bignami, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School, USA; David Zaring, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Historical origins of American regulatory exceptionalism / Reuel Schiller -- Regulation in the European Union / R. Daniel Kelemen -- Regulatory state in East Asia / John Ohnesorge -- Participation in the U.S. administrative process / Wendy Wagner -- Regulatory procedure and participation in the European Union / Stijn Smismans -- Impact assessment: diffusion and integration / Jonathan B. Wiener and Daniel L. Ribeiro -- Access to information in the UK and India / Ben Worthy -- Campaign enforcement style: Chinese practice in context and comparison / Benjamin van Rooij -- Can private class actions enforce marketplace regulations? Do they? Should they? / Deborah R. Hensler -- Regulation and the courts: judicial review in comparative perspective / Francesca Bignami -- Proportionality review of administrative action in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China / Cheng-Yi Huang and David S Law -- Structural reform litigation, regulation and the right to health in Colombia / Everaldo Lamprea, Lisa Forman and Audrey R. Chapman -- Law of lawmaking: positive political theory in comparative public law / Susan Rose-Ackerman, Stefanie Egidy and James Fowkes -- The troubling conjunction of public and private law / Peter L. Strauss -- Performance-based regulation: concepts and challenges / Cary Coglianese -- Transplanting law in a globalized world: private transnational regulation and the legal transplant paradigm / Jodi L. Short -- How the WTO shapes the regulatory state / Gregory Shaffer -- International investment law and regulatory governance / Jason Yackee -- The emerging post-crisis paradigm for international financial regulation / David Zaring -- The Integrated administrative law and governance of the European Union / Herwig C. H. Hofmann -- Governing disasters: the challenge of global disaster law and policy / Eric A. Feldman and Chelsea Fish.

"Governance by regulation (rules propounded and enforced by bureaucracies) is taking a growing share of the sum total of governance. Once thought to be an American phenomenon, it is now a central form of state action in every part of the world, including Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and it is at the core of much international lawmaking. In Comparative Law and Regulation, original contributions by leading scholars in the field focus both on the legal dimension of regulation and on how this dimension operates in those places that have turned to regulation to meet their obligations. Today the regulation of everything from e-commerce and product safety to air quality is global. To understand how regulation is made and enforced in the multiple domestic and international jurisdictions involved, it is necessary to move beyond conventional sub-fields of law like administrative law and international law. Drawing on contributions from leading scholars with diverse subject and country expertise, Comparative Law and Regulation introduces a new field of legal research geared at understanding the operation of the global regulatory process. The book affords cutting-edge analysis of the entire gamut of regulatory law: rulemaking by bureaucracies, legislatures, and private bodies; oversight by public and private actors; civil and criminal enforcement; and judicial review. The chapters cover over thirty different domestic and international jurisdictions, including the United States, Germany, the European Union, India, China, South Korea, Colombia, the World Trade Organization, and private investor-state arbitral tribunals"--Publisher's website.