Georgetown Regulation

John Austin’s utilitarian reply was that regulation is “instructions, backed by risk of sanctions, from a sovereign, to whom individuals have a behavior of obedience”. Pure legal professionals on the opposite facet, resembling Jean-Jacques Rousseau, argue that regulation displays basically ethical and unchangeable legal guidelines of nature. The idea of “pure regulation” emerged in historical Greek philosophy concurrently and in reference to the notion of justice, and re-entered the mainstream of Western tradition via the writings of Thomas Aquinas, notably his Treatise on Regulation. For 3Ls Gabrielle Camilleri and Luke Freedman, inspirations to follow public service regulation have …