Paradoxes of Professional Regulation : : In Search of Regulatory Principles / / Michael J. Trebilcock.

• Funder: University of Toronto Libraries
• VerfasserIn: Trebilcock, Michael J.,
• Author: University of Toronto Libraries
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (168 p.)

"Occupational licensure, including regulation of the professions, dates back to the medieval period. While the guilds that performed this regulatory function have long since vanished, professional regulation continues to this day. For instance, in the United States, 22 percent of American worke...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Paradoxes of Professional Regulation: Under- and Over-Regulation of Professional Service Markets
• 2 Regulating Alternative Medicines: Disorder in the Borderlands
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Major Schools of CAM and Their Regulation
• 2.3 Disorder in the Borderlands
• 2.4 Conclusion
• 3 Regulating Mental Health Care Providers: Building Stronger Signposts through the Maze
• 3.1 The Contemporary Context
• 3.2 A Menu of Regulatory Instruments
• 3.3 A Comparative Review of the Regulation of Psychotherapeutic Services
• 3.4 Confronting the Central Regulatory Dilemmas
• 4 Financial Advisers and Planners: Planning without a Regulatory Plan
• 4.1 The Nature of the Regulatory Challenges
• 4.2 The Menu of Regulatory Options
• 4.3 A Comparative Overview of Regulatory Regimes for Financial Advisers/Planners
• 4.4 The Example of Ontario
• 4.5 General Regulatory Principles
• Appendix 4.1 Regulatory Approaches across Jurisdictions
• 5 Regulating Immigration Consultants: Precarity and Exploitation
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Ineffective Regulation of Immigration Consultants in Canada
• 5.3 A Comparative Overview of Regulatory Regimes for Immigration Consultants
• 5.4 Conclusion: The Contours of an Optimal Regulatory Regime for Immigration Consultants
• Appendix 5.1 The Roles of the Regulatory Body Across Selected Jurisdictions
• 6 Regulating the Market for Legal Services: Paradoxes of Over- and Under-Regulation within a Single Profession
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 The Price of Justice
• 6.3 Prices and Costs
• 6.4 Post-Entry Regulation of Competence
• 6.5 Self-Regulation of the Legal Profession
• 7 Conclusion: Reducing the Paradoxes of Professional Regulation
• 7.1 Problem Identification
• 7.2 The Choice of Regulatory Instrument
• 7.3 The Political Economy of Professional Regulation
• Index