Advanced Certificate in Allied Legal Professional Skills Module 4: Law, Regulation and Policy (synchronous E-Learning)

At the end of the 2-day module, participants will be able to:

• Explain the policy cycle leading to the making of laws and regulations
• Identify the key stakeholders in the making of laws and regulations
• Understand data-driven decision-making
• Learn about stakeholder engagement
• Understand the balancing of competing policy and regulatory objectives
• Identify the range of instruments and tools commonly used for legal and regulatory interventions
• Learn about common legal policy and regulatory principles
• Understand ex-post impact evaluation

What You'll Learn

Governments around the world use law and regulation to deliver public policy objectives across many areas. This module covers the policy cycle leading to the making of new laws and regulations. Participants will learn about how problems for which policy responses may be required (whether legal or otherwise) are identified. This involves triangulating and evaluating multiple sources of information gathered using a variety of tools, such as data and stakeholder engagement. Participants will then learn about responding to the identified problems and translating policy intent into the design of legislative or regulatory frameworks. We will look at balancing competing policy and regulatory objectives, the range of tools and interventions available to achieve desired objectives (of which law and regulations are part of other options), and common legal and regulatory principles pertaining to legislative and regulatory interventions. Finally, participants will look at evaluating the impact of the changes made so as to ascertain effectiveness of the interventions. We will also look at how the concepts and methodologies covered in the earlier parts of the course could apply in other contexts and translate to benefits for practitioners.