Mantzari provides a fascinating account of legal and social science theories relating to how the choice of institutions affects the substance of the law (...) The book is rich in theory and detail. The selection of methods and the normative arguments engage deeply with various strands of scholarship ranging from the theories and history of regulation, to the philosophy of judicial review and comparative institutional analysis. Such debates are presented clearly and informatively, friendly also to those who are not fully immersed in those discussions (...) The book makes notable contributions beyond its immediate research questions and would be of great interest to the study of the institutional development of regulatory authorities and their governance.
Dr Despoina Mantzari is Associate Professor in Competition Law and Policy at University College London (UCL), Faculty of Laws. Prior to that she was a lecturer at the University of Reading and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. She was also a visiting researcher at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. She holds a PhD and an LL.M from UCL and studied law at the National University of Athens. Her research cuts across competition law and public law and regulation and has been funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, and the BA/Leverhulme Trust.