About the conference
The Biennial Conference is the leading interdisciplinary conference on regulation and regulatory governance held in Europe, attracting researchers from all over the globe working in a wide range of disciplines.
The 2018 edition of the Standing Group Biennial Conference will focus on regulation between effectiveness and legitimacy as an overarching theme. Conference highlights include the Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development awarded to a senior scholar who made an outstanding contribution to the field, the Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best conference paper by a junior member of the profession, as well as round tables, keynote lectures, social activities and more.
Call for Papers and Panels deadline
Paper and panel proposals: 15 December 2017.
Notifications of acceptance: 31 January 2018.Full papers: 15 June 2018.
Submission of Proposals
Abstract proposals should not exceed 300 words, and proposed panels should include 3-4 papers or free slots, plus an (optional) discussant.
Paper and panel proposals are to be submitted exclusively through the conference management system.
Call for Papers and Panels
Submit a proposal here.
Register here
Lausanne campus map
Lausanne accomodation and sightseeing
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Conference highlights
Accepted panels and papers
Keynote events
Draft Conference Programme
Theme and Topics
The conference will be focused on regulation between effectiveness and legitimacy as an overarching theme. We welcome papers and panels addressing this and other topics, including (but not limited to):
- Assessment of effectiveness and legitimacy of regulation
- Reputational issues in regulation
- Transparency and accountability of regulatory governance
- Private regulation, co-regulation and self-regulation
- Regulatory governance at local, sub-national, national, regional, and global levels
- The role of state and non-state actors and their relations within and across levels
- Regulatory actors, networks and institutions
- Regulatory policymaking and the politics of regulation
- Regulatory enforcement and compliance
- Sector-specific regulatory regimes, including regulation of network industries
- Risk regulation
- Responsive regulation
- The economics of regulation
- Law and policy in regulatory governance
- Regulation and the global South
- Multi-level regulation: interactions and interdependences
- Critical approaches to regulatory governance
- Regulation in historical perspective
- The sociology of regulators: biographies and trajectories
- Ethnographic approaches to regulatory practice
- The regulation of morality and gender issues
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