Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 degree in any discipline and interest in or experience of related areas of law, public administration, politics or economics (see entry requirements)
Note: If you are applying under the 1+3 scheme please make this clear in your application and include a full research proposal see (Entry requirements).
The chance to study regulation within a systematic framework – with the opportunity to specialise to suit your interests.
The course has a multidisciplinary core combining studies in law, political science and institutional economics.
Our distinctive approach concentrates on institutional issues and behaviour in regulation – regulatory bureaucracies, interest groups, legislators and courts – in addition to the economic aspects of regulation. We aim to bring together the contrasting North American and European perspectives on regulation, and to juxtapose experience of regulatory practice with theoretical ideas about how regulation works.
Teaching staff are leading researchers in the field; several are involved at the highest level in advising government and regulatory agencies. The core course is taught across all members of the MSc Regulation team: Robert Baldwin, Julia Black, Martin Lodge and Mark Thatcher.
LSE and London provide an international centre for the study and practice of regulation. Regular talks are arranged from practitioners in the field and there are many opportunities to participate in seminars and conferences inside and outside the School. The ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation offers many opportunities to take part in leading edge research.
About the MSc programmes
Regulatory growth and reform, like privatisation, has been an international 'policy boom' in recent years. Governments have increasingly used regulation in preference to other policy instruments. Regulation therefore plays a central role in the contemporary understanding of law and public policy. As a field of study, regulation requires a multi-disciplinary approach, because legal, political and economic issues are intertwined and each has to be understood to make sense of the overall process.
The MSc Regulation is a truly interdisciplinary programme. You take a core seminar on Law and Politics of Regulation and then have the opportunity to specialise through your choice of options and your dissertation topic. If you take two full courses (or equivalent) or a full course and a dissertation in one of the specialisms listed below, you may have this specialism included in your degree title, for example, MSc Regulation (Environmental Regulation).
You should usually have achieved a good upper second class honours degree or its equivalent and have an interest in, and experience of, related areas of law, public administration, politics or economics.
Any course from another programme by special permission
Note that not all the options will be available every year, and some may only be available with permission of the course proprietor. Please refer to the Government Department's website for a more up to date index of available courses.
