Multi-Level Regulation and its Governance
by Richard Steward

Multi-level economic and social regulation is pervasive in federal systems such as the US, in Europe, and globally. In all of these jurisdictionally complex systems, the design of regulatory structures raises deep issues of uniformity vs. diversity, centralization vs. subsidiarity, market integration and efficiency vs. accommodation of  local values. This unit will focus on how law and governance arrangements address and resolve these tensions, drawing primarily on examples from environmental regulation.