Admission requirements
This course is open to students enrolled in the Master Law and Society.
Description
This module examines the evolution of different ideas about regulation and compliance, both from a governance perspective and from a corporate viewpoint. It starts with regulatory theory to analyze the different instruments and options available to regulate various aspects of society (regulatory design). The regulatory field has witnessed a shift from command and control by national governments to a greater diversity of involved actors, a larger variety of steering modes and an increasing importance of levels of government other than the nation-state (both decentralized and supra-national governance). The course proceeds by looking at how regulators as well as companies deal with the regulatory norms. We will look at enforcement styles, compliance management systems, and case studies of companies that have been caught for large-scale violations (capacity, incentives, corporate culture, different roles and positions within the company). The course will lastly focus on corporate social responsibility, regulatory globalization, regulatory capitalism, the (historical) development of the concepts in different regions, the national and global legal frameworks applicable, the stakeholders involved, and the social and legal issues that arise when global corporations operate in national economies. Several concrete case studies will be drawn from a range of countries from different regions during this course.
Course objectives
Objectives of the course
At the end of this course, students are able to
Identify, explain and apply a range of classic and ongoing theories and academic debates on regulation and compliance, and critically examine the concepts and problems addressed in them;
Review and critically evaluate the development of past and current regulatory regimes;
Identify the different legal and non-legal factors and actors that influence regulatory enforcement;
Argue, reflect and illustrate during a scientific debate related to a theme within the field of regulation and compliance;
Reconstruct and evaluate the process of different actors on the basis of a case study;
Apply the knowledge of regulatory enforcement in practice by independently plan and execute a simple qualitative empirical research of a regulatory enforcement situation and report the results during a presentation and in writing as an advisory report; suggestions for improvement are included in the conclusions.
Timetable
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Mode of instruction
Lectures
Number of (2 hour) interactive lectures: 5
Names of lecturers: dr. Marieke Kluin
Required preparation by students:
Seminars
Number of (2 hour) seminars: 5 (mandatory)
Names of instructors: to be announced
Required preparation by students: students will have read and prepared the reading materials by answering three questions and formulating three questions related to all the reading materials.
All students are required to attend and actively participate during lectures and seminars.
Assessment method
Examination form(s)
Written examination, consisting of open questions (50%).
Research paper, as well as an oral presentation of the results (50%).
Each component has to be completed with a passing result (5,5) in order to complete the course successfully.
There will be a resit for both assessments. Depending on the number of participants, the course coordinator can decide that this retake will be an oral examination. In that case, you will be notified of this in time.
The partial exams that have been finished with a passing grade, will be valid up to and including the academic year following the year in which the grade has been achieved. To this there is one exception: when the learning objectives, content, design or examination of a course has been changed, the course coordinator can decide that the validity of the partial exam concerned has expired due to didactic reasons. This will be stated in the course description of the academic year in which the change(s) will be implemented.
Submission procedures
To be announced.
Areas to be tested within the exam
The examination syllabus consists of the required reading (literature) for the course, the course information guide and the subjects taught in the lectures, the seminars and all other instructions which are part of the course.
Regulation retake passed exams
In this course it is possible to retake an exam that has been passed (cf. art. 4.1.8.1 and further of the Course and Examination Regulations). Students who have passed the exam may retake the final written assessment (test) of the course if they meet certain requirements. To retake a passed exam, students need to ask the Student Administration Office (OIC) for permission. For more information, go to 'course and exam enrollment' > 'permission for retaking a passed exam' on the student website.
Reading list
Course materials
A combination of international articles. The titles will be distributed via Brightspace.
Registration
Check the website under “course and exam enrollment” for information on how to register for the course.
Contact information
Coordinator: Dr. M.H.A. Kluin
Work address: KOG (Steenschuur 25 Leiden)
Telephone number: 071 - 527 74 62
Institution/division
Institute: Criminal Law and Criminology
Department: Criminology
Room number secretary: KOG (Steenschuur 25 Leiden), room B3.11
Opening hours: 09:00 – 12:30
Telephone number secretary: 071 - 527 74 62
Remarks
In case of (corona)restrictions imposed by the government, this course description is subject to change.