Slides of lecture V.

The new frontiers of global risk regulation: regulating lifestyle risks and information to consumers. Debate on the role of the State in risk regulation and emergence of a new form of paternalism. 

The new frontier of risk regulation: lifestyle risks and NCDs and their role in the emergence of a new public health, shifting from treatment to prevention. 

Slides of lectures III & IV.

The optimization tools of the modern risk regulator: risk analysis, economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis vs. risk assessment.  

The ins and outs of WTO: comparing technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary & phytosanitary (SPS) measures, the international regime for Risk Assessment. 

Slides of lecture 2.

Analysis of WTO as a global risk regulator. 

Introduction to the genesis, evolution and main features of EU risk regulation and comparison with the US system. 

Slides of lecture I.

Bisphenol A: risk analysis, risk perception and public knowledge. 

Discussion about availability heuristic, probability neglect, endowment effect and other cognitive biases. 

This class focuses on risk as an object of and justification for regulation, by discussing the different models of risk regulation. Each model determines how risks should be perceived, assessed, quantified and responded. 

Before embarking on our journey, it is necessary to closely examine the concept of risk and to explore how risk has progressively become an object as well as a justification of regulation. 

Introduction to the course: course format, teaching methods, readings and evaluation. 

Syllabus of the course: course structure, case studies and readings.