Previous seminars

2012

• How to cope with a terrorist attack? Challenges to political and administrative leadership
  Professor Tom Christensen
  University of Oslo, Norway
  Date: 1 May 2012
  Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
• Robust Regulation in the Offshore Petroleum Industry - An Assessment of Different Approaches
  Professor Preben Lindøe
  University of Stavanger, Norway
  Date: 6 March 2012
  Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm

2011

• Ideals of governability in risk regulation. Or where do risk-based decision-making frameworks come from?
  Dr David Demortain
  IFRIS – University Paris-Est
  Date: 31 January 2012
  Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  Venue: KSW 3.01
• The Transitional Objects of the Law
  Dr Javier Lezaun, Oxford University
  Date: 6 December, Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  Venue: KSW 3.01
• "Regulating for Cybersecurity"
  Dr Ian Brown
  Oxford University
  Tuesday 22 November, 1.00 - 2.30pm, KSW 3.01
• Business Compliance - Motivation and Capacity. Lessons from an Australian Research Project."
  Dr Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen
  Aarhus University
  Tuesday 14 June, 1.00 - 2.30pm, OLD 3.21
• "Models and the Evaluation of Risk Regulation Decision-Making."
  Dr Liz Fisher
  Oxford University
  Tuesday 15 March, 1.30-3pm, OLD3.21
• "When Limited Liability was (still) an Issue - Conflicting Mobilizations in Nineteenth Century England."
  Professor Marie-Laure Djelic
  ESSEC Business School
  Tuesday 1 February, 1.00-2.30pm, KSW G108

 

2010 

 

• Risk, The State and the Public: Theorizing the Politics of 'Shared Responsibility'
  Dr Vibeke Schou Tjalve
  Karen Lund Petersen
  Copenhagen University
  Tuesday 30 November, 1.00 - 2.30pm, AGWR
• Crystal balls or Christmas Baubles? Risk-Based Policymaking and the Institutional Modulation of Risk
  Dr Henry Rothstein
  King's College, London
  Tuesday 16 November, 1:00-2.30pm, NAB1.14
• Technoscience and Risk Regulation: a Non-Trivial Relationship
  Dr Karen Kastenhofer
  Austrian Academy of Sciences
  Tuesday 18 May, 1:00-2:30pm, G305
   
• The Risk University: Organizational Risk Management in English Higher Education
  Professor Michael Huber
  University of Bielefeld.
  Tuesday 4 May, 1:00-2:30pm, G305
   
• Risk, Technology and Disaster Management
  Professor Sue Black OBE (Dundee University), Commander Nicholas Bracken OBE and Roger Baldwin (Metropolitan Police Service)
  Tuesday 16 March, 6:30-8:00pm, G108
   
• Protecting Children from Maltreatment and Protecting Agencies from Blame: Can They Be Compatible?
  Professor Eileen Munro
  London School of Economics
  Tuesday 9 March, 1:00-2:30pm, G305
   
• 'Risk Assessment Policy' - a Critical Innovation for both Scientific and Democratic Legitimacy
  Professor Erik Millstone
  University of Sussex
  Tuesday 9 February, 1:00-2:30pm, G305

2009

• Risk and Performance Management in Major UK Public and Private Sector Organisations: a Tale of Contrasting Cultures
  Professor Margaret Woods
  Nottingham University Business School
  Tuesday 1 December, 1:00-2:30pm, G305
   
• The GM Nation? Public debate: what was it all about?
  Professor Tom Horlick-Jones
  Cardiff University
  Tuesday 27 October, 1:00-2:30pm, G305
   
• Risk Governance for Food and Nuclear Safety in Japan - Institutional Reform and Its Implementation
  Prof Hideaki Shiroyama
  University of Tokyo
  Tuesday 26 May 2009, 1.00 - 2.30pm, H615.
   
• Nanotechnology regulation: Prospects and Problems of Transatlantic Convergence
  Dr Robert Falkner
  LSE
  Tuesday 12 May 2009, 1.00 - 2.30pm, H615.
   
• Seeing risks amongst the numbers: visualisation techniques in financial markets
  Dr Michael Pryke
  The Open University
  Tuesday 17 February 2009, 1:00pm - 2:30pm, H615.
   
• Regulating doctors and the custody of virtue
  Prof Mary Dixon-Woods
  University of Leicester
  Tuesday 20 January 2009, 1:00pm - 2:30pm, H615.

2008

• Problems of governance of a globalised industry: the case of the enforcement of international regulations on seafarers' health and safety, welfare and training
  Prof Michael Bloor
  Universities of Glasgow and Cardiff
  Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 1:00pm-2:30pm - H615
   
• Risk Taking and Action in Online Anonymous Markets
  Dr Alex Preda
  University of Edinburgh
  Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 1:00pm-2:30pm - H615

• Human Rights as Risk: Examining the Risk-Rights Relationships in a New Way
  Prof Noel Whitty
  University of Nottingham
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 1:00pm-2:30pm - H615
   
• Science, precaution and participation in risk governance: from tension to synergy?
  Prof Andy Stirling
  University of Sussex
  Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 1:00pm-2:30pm - H615
   
• "Culture Eats Systems for Breakfast": On the Limitations of Management Based Regulation
  Prof Neil Gunningham
  The Australian National University
  Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 1:00pm-2:30pm - H615
   
• From Risk to Quality: International Standards and the Service Economy
  Prof Jean-Christophe Graz
  University of Lausanne
  Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615
   
• Transparency and Discretion
  Dr Andrew Barry
  Oxford University Centre for the Environment
  Tuesday, 26 February 2008
   
• Risk Management and Budgeting
  Prof Michela Arnaboldi
  Politecnico di Milano
  Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615

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2007

• Private Regulation in the New European Architecture
  Prof Fabrizio Cafaggi
  European University Institute.
  Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007, 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615
   
• From Free Movement to Risk Analysis:  a Legal Perspective on the Change of the EU's Regulation of Foods.
  Dr. Morten Broberg
  University of Copenhagen
  Tuesday, 23 Oct 2007, 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615
   
• The Politics of Transparency
  Christina Garsten
  Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
  Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007, 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615 
   
• Legal risk, law and justice in a globalizing financial market
  Mr Roger McCormick
  Director of LSE Law and Financial Markets Project
  Tuesday, 15 May 2007 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615
   
• Language Games and Tragedy: The Bristol Royal Infirmary Disaster Revisited
  Dr Beth Kewell
  York Management School
  Tuesday, 1 May 2007 1:00pm - 2:30pm - H615
   
• Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Regulation (Panel Discussion)
  (2007 ESRC Festival of Social Science)
  Tuesday, 13th March 2007 2-4pm - U8 
   
• Safe in their Hands? Licensing and Revalidation of Safety-Critical Professions in Industry and Healthcare
  Prof Rhona Flin, Professor of Psychology, University of Aberdeen.
  Tuesday, 6 March 2007 1-2:30pm - H615
   
• Deliberative Mapping: a novel analytic-deliberative tool for participatory risk assessment
  Prof Jacqui Burgess
  University of East Anglia, Centre for Environmental Risk.
  Tuesday, 30 January 2007 1-2:30pm - H615
   
• Fear and Terror in a Post - Political Age, Misunderstanding the Meaning of Contemporary Terrorism
  Prof Bill Durodie, Senior Lecturer in Risk and Security, Cranfield University, Swindon
  Tuesday, 20th February 2007 1-2:30pm - H615

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2006

• The Normalisation of sanitary alarms - a sociological analysis of the revision of WHO International Health Regulations
  Didier Torny, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Paris.
  Tuesday, 10 October 2006 1-2:30pm
   
• Drug Risks:  A Brave new world?
  Lucien Abenhaim, Professor of Public Health, University of Paris, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatics, McGill University, Honorary Professor of Risk Management, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006 1-2:30pm
   
• Black Boxes, Red Herrings and White Powder - perspectives on the audit committee
  Laura Spira, Professor of Corporate Governance, Oxford Brookes University Business School
  Tuesday, 7 November 2006 1-2:30pm
   
• Risk Management and Regulation: Two years into the Barroso Commission
  Ragnor Lofstedt, Professor of Risk Management, King's College London
  Tuesday 21 November 2006 1-2:30pm
   

• Public Perceptions and Trust in the Regulation of genetically Modified Food
  Wouter Poortinga
  Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Psychology, Cardiff University
  Tuesday 2 May, 1-2.30pm
   
• The Evolution of Patient Safety
  Charles Vincent
  Department of Surgical Oncology & Technology, Imperial College London
  Tuesday 16 May, 1-2.30pm
   
• Evaluating the Performance of Infrastructure Regulators: A World Bank Handbook
  Jon Stern
  London Business School, Regulation Initiative
  Tuesday 30 May, 1-2.30pm
   
• Risk, Regulation and the BCCI Litigation
  Joanna Gray
  University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  Tuesday 14 March, 1-2.30pm
   
• Analysing the Higher Education Regulatory State
  Professor Roger King
  Open University
  Tuesday 28 February, 1-2.30pm
   
• Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism: exploring the interface between technological risk decision-making and administrative law
  Dr Liz Fisher 
  Corpus Christi, Oxford
  Tuesday 14 February, 1-2.30pm
   
• The Regulation of Genetic Testing - a case study in the difficulties of constructing and operating risk-based regulatory regimes
  Stuart Hogarth 
  Cambridge University
  Tuesday 17 January, 1-2.30pm

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2005

• The Foresight Saga: Lessons from the Failures of Risk Representation
  Sheila Jasanoff
  Harvard University
  13 December 2005
   
• The Limits of Loyalty?  The Contested Relationship Between Civil Servants and Politicians
  Professor Rune Premfors
  Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research, Sweden
  6 December 2005
   
• 'Freedom Without Responsibility' Occupational Communities and Safe Practices in Railway Maintenance
  Professor Johan M. Sanne
  Linkoping University, Sweden
  22 November 2005
   
• Railtrack's Demise - the implications for independent regulation
  Tom Winsor
  White & Case
  8 November 2005
   
• Do Businesses Take Internal Compliance Progams Seriously?  An Empirical Test - Preliminary Results
  Dr Christine Parker
  University of Melbourne
  25 October 2005
   
• Paradoxes of 'Safety'
  Professor Jerry Ravetz:
  James Martin Institute, Oxford
  11 October 2005
   
• A Technology to produce Risk and Disease: a comparative analysis of genetic testing for breast cancer
  Dr Shobita Parthasarathy
  University of California, Los Angeles
  21 June 2005
• Regulating Contaminated Land: policy, sustainability and risk
  Philip Catney
  University of Sheffield
  7 June 2005
• The New Transnational Public Law: the case of forest certification
  Professor Errol Meidinger
  University of Buffalo
  31 May 2005
• The Biopolitics of Technological Innovation: the case of GM agriculture in Europe
  Bronislaw Szerszynski
  Institute of Environmental and Public Policy, Lancaster University
  24 May 2005
• Food Fights: who shapes international food safety standards and who uses them?
  Dr Diahanna Post
  Brookings Institution and the University of California, Berkeley
  3 May 2005
• The Politics of Small Things: nanotechnology, risk and democracy
  James Wilsdon
  Demos
  26 April 2005
• The Relationship Between the Financial European Regulation and National Regulators
  Professor Marie-Anne Frison-Roche
  Sciences Po, Paris
  15 March 2005
• What is Law in the European Union? The Implementation of the European Union Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and ControlDr Bettina Lange
  Jean-Monnet Fellow, European University Institute
  15 February 2005
• Risk Transformation: a new era for chemicals regulation in the United States and Europe?
  Dr Arthur Daemmrich
  Chemical Heritage Foundation
  1 March 2005
• Securities Analysts as Frame-Makers
  Daniel Buenza
  Universidad Pompeu i Fabra, Barcelona
  1 February 2005
• Corporate Governance, Labour Regulation and Legal Origin: a case of institutional complementarity?
  Professor Simon Deakin
  University of Cambridge
  18 January 2005

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2004

• Science: a puzzling profession?
  Professor Robert Dingwall
  University of Nottingham
  November 2004
• Whistleblowing: A Theory with Application to Environmental Regulation
  Professor Anthony Heyes
  Royal Holloway College, University of London
  October 2004
• New Social Risks in Europe
  Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby
  University of Kent
  October 2004
   
• The Uncertain Promise of Risk
  Professor Pat O'Malley
  Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice 
  Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
  May 2004
   
• Catastrophic Risk, Insurance and Terrorism
  Professor Richard Ericson
  University of Oxford
  June 2004
• Attitudes to the Risks and Benefits of Agricultural Biotechnology in Britain: the role of ambivalence
  Professor Nick Pidgeon
  University of East Anglia June 2004
• The Good, the Bad and the Notorious: risk differentiation in German third party motor insurance 
  Dr Reimund Schwarze
  Deutsches Institut fur Wirtscharftsforschung, Berlin
  June 2004
• Accountability and Institutional Design: some thoughts on the grammar of governance
  Professor Jerry Mashaw
  Yale Law School
  May 2004
• The British Regulatory State: high modern or post modern?
  Professor Michael Moran
  University of Manchester
  May 2004
• Corporate Social Responsibility as a new Self Regulation
  Ben Hunt
  Author, The Timid Corporation
  April 2004
• Getting to Grips with Regulatory Quality: Definitions and Measures
  Professor Claudio Radaelli
  Bradford University
  March 2004
• Law as a Last Resort: prosecution decision-making in a regulatory agency
  Professor Keith Hawkins
  Oxford University
  March 2004
• The Ensuring State and Modes of Regulation
  Professor Gunnar Folke Schuppert
  Social Science Research Centre, Berlin
  February 2004
• Rules and Discretion in the Design of a Procurement System
  Dr Steve Kelman
  Harvard University 
  January 2004

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2003

• Decentralisation of European Economic Law. Two Models: Competition Law and Financial Services Law
  Dr Myriam Senn
  Swiss Federal Banking Commission 
  December 2003
• Beyond National Styles of Regulation - Genetically Modified Food in Germany and in the United States
  Astrid Epp
  Bielefeld University
  November 2003
• Regulation of the NHS in England
  Mr Gwyn Bevan
  Office for Improvement on Health Care Performance
  November 2003
• Governance without Governments? The Case of the Internet
  Dr Raymund Werle
  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  October 2003
• Materiality and Performativity of Calculation
  Dr Herbert Kalthoff
  European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies
  October 2003
• Containing negative integration? The European politics of 'services publics'
  Professor Adrienne Héritier
  European University Institute
  July 2003
• Regulation and Human Genomics
  Dr Oliver James
  University of Exeter
  June 2003
• Misfortune, Insurance, and the Liberal State: the perplexities of fairness
  Professor Eugene Bardach
  University of California, Berkeley
  May 2003
• Risk regulation and interest accommodation in European pharmaceuticals' licensing
  Dr Jürgen Feick
  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  May 2003
• Asymmetrical Actors and Intentional Risk
  Professor Frank Furedi
  University of Kent at Canterbury
  May 2003
• Enterprise Risk Management: lessons from the field
  Professor William Shenkir and Professor Paul Walker
  University of Virginia
  March 2003
• The Stock Exchange Men and Their Marvellous Instruments: price-recording technologies, knowledge and the origins of modern market organisation
  Dr Alex Preda
  University of Konstanz
  February 2003
• Exam Howlers or Accidents Waiting to Happen?: a comparison of the regulatory implications of the exam results debacles in Scotland 2000 and England 2002
  Professor Brian W. Hogwood
  University of Strathclyde
  February 2003
• Communities of Practice and the Politics of Conflict in EU Problem-Solving
  Mr Damian Chalmers
  LSE
  January 2003

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2002

• Too Much Ice Cream or Tigers in the Bushes? Adversarial legalism as the American 'way of law'
  Professor David Nelken
  University of Macerata, Italy; Cardiff University, University of Wales and LSE
  December 2002
• Herding Towards a New Convention: on herds, shepherds, and lost sheep in the liberalisation of the telecommunications and electricity industries
  Dr David Levi-Faur
  University of Manchester and University of Oxford
  November 2002
• Technologies With(out) Programmes: exploring the roles of accounting within webs of public management regulation
  Professor Fabrizio Panozzo
  Universita' ca' Foscari di Venezia
  October 2002
• The 2001 Foot and Mouth Crisis: an object lesson in regulatory failure
  Professor David Campbell and Professor Bob Lee
  Cardiff University
  October 2002
• Ideologies of Risk and Regulation
  Dr Charles Dannreuther
  University of Leeds
  June 2002
• Corporations, Risk Management and the Environment
  Professor Neil Gunningham
  Australian National University
  May 2002
• Regulation and Co-Regulation of Environmental Management in Industry
  Professor Marius Aalders
  University of Amsterdam
  May 2002
• Risk Analysis and Behavioural Law and Economics
  Professor Anthony Ogus
  University of Manchester
  April 2002
• Common Knowledge, Coherent Uncertainties and Consensus
  Professor Yakov Ben-Haim
  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  March 2002
• Extreme Risks and the New Capital Allocation Charge for Operational Risk
  Dr Elena Medova
  University of Cambridge
  February 2002
• Fuzzy Legality and National Styles of Regulation: government intervention in the Israel downstream oil market
  Dr Margit Cohn
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  February 2002
• Evidence Based Versus Value Based Policy: some case studies in UK safety and environmental regulation
  Mr Michael Spackman
  CARR and National Economic Research Associates (NERA)
  January 2002

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2001

• Traders and the Management of Risk in Financial Markets
  Professor Paul Willman
  University of Oxford
  December 2001
• Governance, Risk and Modernising Government
  Professor Joyce Tait
  University of Edinburgh
  November 2001
• Regulation: a useful concept
  Dr Julia Black
  LSE
  October 2001
• Regulating Risk Disclosure in Germany - A leap into the unknown
  Professor Martin Glaum
  Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
  June 2001
• Health Care Ethics and Clinical Risk Management: what does regulation have to do with morality?
  Dr Richard Ashcroft
  Imperial College School of Medicine
  June 2001
• From Risk to Indeterminacy: introducing science to culture in modern times
  Professor Brian Wynne
  Lancaster University
  May 2001
• Addressing Environmental Risk in the Developing World: vulnerability and social activism
  Dr Tim Forsyth
  LSE
  February 2001
• Risk Regulation in Contemporary Europe: an American perspective
  Professor David Vogel
  University of California
  January 2001

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2000

• The Engineer's Dilemma: a sociological perspective on juridification and regulation
  Dr Fiona Haines
  University of Melbourne
  December 2000