Critical Reflections on Regulation Julia Black Contents Introduction 1 1. Decentered understandings of regulation 2 2. ‘Regulation’: Can it survive ‘decentring’? 8 3. Conceptualising ‘regulation’ 16 Developing a decentered definition of regulation 19 Critiquing a decentered definition of regulation 21 4. Law and regulation 22 5. Conclusion 27