Direction of the « Droit et Économie de la Régulation » series, Presses de Sciences Po and Dalloz (2004-2011)

After defining what may be a "crisis of Regulation" and stressing that the crisis is a political phenomenon, the book devotes its first part of "systemic risk," which refers to the assumption of the general crisis. This hypothesis is exposed to prospectively or from cases in different sectors, e.g. financial, energy and health, before wondering how to organize post-crisis. The regulation itself including risk, the book chooses to study especially the inconsistency because it is the higher legal risk for an economic system. Therefore, it is proposed to organize inter-regulation mechanisms. Finally, the specific risks Regulator is able to address are conflicts, through the dispute settlement mechanism, derived from judicial system. It is examined in each of the regulated sectors.

Economic Regulation renews the legislative art because the law can no longer impose hierarchically to people: it must convince operators who accept the relevance of the demonstration is made. Thus the authority by rationality has replaced classical notion of sovereignty. These new qualities of legislative discourse allow the authors of the standards, norms and decisions, including the regulator, to participate in the "concert of regulation." This new legislative art must also tend to increase the internal consistency of regulation and we can think of a framework law in this direction, especially regarding regulatory authorities.