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The 15th annual Henry
Morris Lecture in
International and Comparative Law
November 10, 2003 3-4 p.m.
"Ratcheting Up and Driving Down Global Business
Regulatory Standards"
John Braithwaite
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow and Chair, RegNet,
The Australian National University
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RATCHETING UP AND DRIVING DOWN GLOBAL BUSINESS REGULATORY STANDARDS
While it is common for nations to compete to attract investment by lowering
regulatory standards, Braithwaite finds empirically that it is just as
common for regulatory standards to be ratcheted up because of global forces.
How that happens is not well understood. Starting with the globalization
of labor standards that prohibit slavery, Braithwaite demonstrates a critical
role for social movements in raising global standards. This leads to identifying
a number of mechanisms that enable the weak to prevail over the strong
in the world system.
ABOUT JOHN BRAITHWAITE
John Braithwaite is an ARC Federation fellow and chair of RegNet. In
the 1980s he undertook with Peter Grabosky a comprehensive study of all
103 of the major business regulatory agencies in Australia, Of Manners
Gentle: Enforcement Strategies of Australian Business Regulatory Agencies.
Two works on corporate crime were completed with Brent Fisse, The Impact
of Publicity on Corporate Offenders and Corporations, Crime and Accountability.
Responsive Regulation (co-authored with Ian Ayres) was followed
up in 2002 with Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation.
Braithwaite has also recently completed two books with Peter Drahos, Global
Business Regulation and Information Feudalism. He has undertaken
empirical work on a wide variety of substantive domains of business regulation
and is also interested in applying regulatory theory to crime prevention
and peacemaking in international relations. His books have won a number
of prizes in the US and Europe from the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, the American Sociological Association, the Law and Society Association,
the American Society of Criminology and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.
He has been a consultant to many regulatory agencies, served between 1983
and 1987 as a member of Australia's Economic Planning Advisory Council
which was chaired by the Prime Minister, was a Part-time Commissioner
with Australia’s national antitrust and consumer protection agency
between 1985 and 1995 and served as a member of the Council on Business
Regulation (1994-1996) which reported directly to Cabinet on a review
of all laws which impose a regulatory impact on business. He has been
active for 30 years in social movement politics in Australia and internationally.
ABOUT THE LECTURE
This program is funded through the Henry Morris Endowment. An 1889 graduate
of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Henry Crittendon Morris (1863-1948)
enjoyed a distinguished career as an international lawyer and diplomat.
During 25 years of foreign service prior to World War I, Mr. Morris served
as the United States Consul in Ghent, Belgium, and as secretary to Chief
Justice Fuller at the Permanent International Court at the Hague. When the
war broke out, he returned to Chicago to coordinate Red Cross and Liberty
Loan campaigns on behalf of the American war effort.
Mr. Morris was a member of the American Society of International Law
and a number of other organizations devoted to improving international
relations. He was the author of The History of Colonization from the
Earliest Times to the Present Day (1906). The French government made
him a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1937.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call
312/906-5090.
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