PROGRAMME

11 September 2007

7.00 pm. Registration and optional Pre-conference Dinner at Peterhouse


12 September 2007

8.30 am. Registration and Coffee

9.00 am. Session 1 - Lecture Theatre (Intro: Sanderson; Chair: Deakin)
               Regulating Risk: Innovation and Communication
                      - Keynote Speaker: Sir Paul Judge, Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts' Risk Commission
                        Entrepreneurship & Risk
                      - Keynote Speaker: Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair of the UK Food Standards Agency

10.30 am. Tea/Coffee and Poster Presentations (Group 1)
            Dealing with Risk in Different Domains
                      - Mathilde Gralepois, University of Marne-la-Vallée, France: Risk-tolerant regulation in administration:
                        autonomisation of a special metropolitan policy in French local institutions
                      - Justo Corti-Varela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: The end of zero risk regulation of GMs crops in
                        Europe: The battle of co-existence rules

11.00 am. Session 2 - Lecture Theatre (Chair: Hendry)
            Reflections on Risk and Regulation
                Better regulation
                      - Keynote Speaker: Prof. Martin Cave, University of Warwick, The review of the regulation of social housing:
                        Every Tenant Matters
                      - Robyn Fairman, Better Regulation Executive: Regulating risk: Building upon US and European experience
                        on the governance of risk
                Responsibility and Regulation
                      - Keynote Speaker: Prof. Nils Brunsson, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
                      - Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge: Reflexive Governance and the European Corporation

1.00 pm. Lunch, and at 1.30 pm. Poster Presentations (Group 2)
                Regulating Risk via Codes of Corporate Governance
                      - Annette Petow, London School of Economics and Political Science: The Softening of Corporate Governance
                        Rules - Learning a Lesson for the Regulation of Hedge Funds from Corporate Governance Codes and Codes
                        of Conduct for Pension Funds
                      - David Seidl, University of Zurich & Paul Sanderson, University of Cambridge: Comply and Explain:
                        The Flexibility of Corporate Governance Codes in Theory and Practice

2.00 pm. Parallel Sessions
            Parallel Session 3a - Upper Hall (Chair: Ash)
            Institutional Responses to the Regulation of Risk
                      - Henry Rothstein, King's College London: The Institutional Origins of Risk
                      - Isabel Nisbet and Alan Greig, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority: Qualifications - regulation, risk and
                        reputation
                      - Claire Auplat, Imperial College, London and Sciences Po, Paris, and Mark Wiesner: Duke University, US:
                        Nanotechnologies and new dynamics in risk management
                      - Mette Marie Roslyng, King's College London: Comparing Medicine Regulation: The Vioxx Crisis and its Effects
                        in the UK and the US

            Parallel Session 3b - Music Room (Chair: Seidl)
            Regulatory Interactions with Regulatees
                      - Michèle Dupré, Modys, Lyon; Julien Etienne, Curapp, Amiens; Jean-Christophe Lecoze, Inéris, Creil, France:
                        The regulator-regulatee interaction: insights taken from a risk-laden business firm
                      - Chiara Scimemi, and Theo Tompras, Regulatory Dept. WIND Hellas, Greece: Evolving over moving ground:
                        Absorbing introduced regulatory risk. The case of WIND Hellas
                      - Shann Turnbull, International Institute for Self-governance, Sydney, Australia: The Theory and practice of
                        government de-regulation
                      - Philippe Lorino and Benoît Tricard, ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France: Regulatory practices
                        as dialogical activities

            Parallel Session 3c - Lecture Theatre (Chair: Brady)
            Risk Tolerant Regulation in Practice
                      - Mark Wagstaff, Housing Corporation: Principles Based Regulation: Stability, Risk and Trust
                      - Gudela Grote and Johann C. Weichbrodt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland:
                        Uncertainty management through flexible routines in a high-risk organization
                      - Tony Cox, Risk Management Consultant, UK: Regulating health and safety risks - the implications for
                        enforcement
                      - Steve Pointer, UK Health and Safety Executive: Taking account of risk in regulation - the HSE experience

3.30 pm. Tea/Coffee and Poster Presentations (Group 3)
            Protecting the Public ... or not?
                      - John Brady, Anglia Ruskin University: Taking advice: the relationship of advice to the risk of non-compliance
                      - Simon Spoerer, Commission for Social Care Inspection: Politics, burden, calibration and blame: navigating
                        risk in social care regulation
                      - Katie Tucker, Teeside University: Is it strategic risk or individual risk regulators should monitor?


4.00 pm. Session 4 - Lecture Theatre (Chair: Sanderson)
            Responsibilisation: Regulating Perceptions of Risk
                      - Laure Brévignon-Dodin, University of Cambridge: Regulation of emerging healthcare technologies: the need
                        for a renewed regulatory approach to gain public confidence
                      - John Ash, University of Cambridge: Risk, Regulation and Revenge - Changing the Focus of Risk Governance
                        in Bulk Energy Production
                      - Christopher Hodges, University of Oxford: Regulating Risk or Advancing Therapies? Regulation and
                        sustainability of medicines in a cash-limited economy
            Closing address
                      - Keynote Speaker: Rick Haythornthwaite, Chair of the Better Regulation Commission Risk, Responsibility
                        and Regulation: Whose Risk Is It Anyway?

6.00 pm. Close