The Regulatory State: Constitutional Implications

Dawn Oliver, FBA is Professor of Constitutional Law at UCL. She was editor of Public Law from 1993-2002, a member of the Royal Commission on House of Lords Reform 1999-2000, and a member of the Fabian Society on the Future of the Monarchy 2003. She is President of the Study of Parliament Group. She has written extensively on constitutional reform in the UK. Her publications include Public Service Reform: Issues of accountability and public law,with Gavin Drewry, 1996; Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom, 2003; Human Rights and the Private Sphere, ed, with Joerg Fedtke, 2007; The Changing Constitution, ed. with Jeffrey Jowell (7th edition 2011).Tony Prosser is Professor of Public Law at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He was previously John Millar Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author or editor of eleven books and over 100 academic articles, mainly on regulation in the UK and in Europe. His most recent book is The RegulatoryEnterprise (2010) and he has been a member of a major European research project on reflexive governance from 2005-2010.Professor Richard Rawlings is Professor of Public Law at UCL. He has written widely in the subject, with works including Law and Administration (3rd edn, 2009) and Pressure Through Law (1992) (both with Carol Harlow), and Delineating Wales (2003). Edited volumes include Law, Society and Economy (1997), Law and Administration in Europe (2003) (with Paul Craig), and Devolution, Law-Making and the Constitution (2005) (with Robert Hazell). He iscurrently Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution.