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Led by Dr Deni Mantzari, Associate Professor in Competition Law and Policy at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË Laws, research is the first to focus on economic regulation and the crucial role of economists and economic evidence in the work of both regulatory authorities and courts in the US and the UK. Economic evidence refers to the theories, methods and tools used by the discipline of economics (mostly neoclassical, but also behavioural economics) with the aim to advance normative claims on matters of regulatory policy. The research offers a novel conceptual contribution to the underexplored issue of how the increasing reliance of sectoral regulators on economic inputs in the regulatory state affects the legal outputs of regulation and transforms administrative discretion and judicial review.

This research, funded by the AHRC and the British Academy has been published in leading specialist and generalist journals and edited collections:

• D Mantzari, ‘ (2016) 36(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, pp. 565-594
• D Mantzari, ‘ (2018) 6 Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, pp. 281–293
• D Mantzari, ‘ (2020) 8 (3) Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 535-571 (funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant)
• D Mantzari and Francesca Pia Vantaggiato, (2020) Law and Policy
• D Mantzari, ‘Judicial Scrutiny of Regulatory Decisions at the UK’s Specialist Competition Appeal Tribunal’ in (J de Poorter J Ballin Hirsch and S Lavrijssen) Judicial Review of Administrative Discretion in the Administrative State (Springer 2019)

Deni's on the topic was published in September by Oxford University Press. The book launch took place at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË Laws on 2^nd November 2022.