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	text:  larger  smaller		Bettina Lange ULNTF in Law and Regulation  Bettina Lange joined the Law Faculty and Wolfson College in July 2007, having previously worked in the law departments of Aberystwyth and Keele University, UK. She trained in law and sociology at Warwick University, UK and before that studied for two years law at the Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany. Her research examines legal regulation from a socio-legal perspective. She is currently working on a John Fell Fund funded project on the invocation of emotion discourses in the legal regulation of genetically modified organisms in UK agriculture. This project investigates the role that appeals to emotions play in the administrative legal decision-making procedure about the release of GMOs into the environment under UK and EU law. She also works together with Dr. Nafsika Alexiadou (Thessaloniki University) on a research project which examines different styles of policy learning in open methods of co-ordination as applied to education policies in the European Union. This project examines how the European Union seeks to enhance its governance capacity in relation to education policies in the EU through soft regulatory tools, such as policy learning. Bettina was a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy from September 2004 to January 2005. She is a member of the executive of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association, an external examiner in EU and environmental law for Sheffield Law School and has conducted consultancy for the Environment Agency in England and Wales. Here core research interests are • EU, UK and German environmental regulation • Qualitative empirical socio-legal research methods, including discourse analysis • The application of new modes of European governance to education policies • Socio-legal theories of regulation, including the role of emotions in regulatory processes Subject groups : Regulation : Environmental Law Publications (sorted by year) B Lange, 'Searching for the Best Available Techniques - Open and Closed Norms in the Implementation of the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control' (2006) 2(1) International Journal of Law in Context 67-88 B Lange, 'Researching Discourse and Behaviour as Elements of Law in Action' in R. Banakar and M. Travers (eds), Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research (Hart Publishing 2005) B Lange, 'From Boundary Drawing to Transitions: the Creation of Normativity under the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control' (2002) 8(2) European Law Journal 246-268 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0386.00152 ISBN: 1468-0386 B Lange, 'The Emotional Dimension in Legal Regulation' (2002) 29(1) Journal of Law and Society (Special Issue) 197-225 DOI: 10.1111/1467-6478.00216 ISBN: 1467-6478 Correspondence address: Wolfson College, Linton Road Oxford OX2 6UD Link to Wolfson College Link to University email/phone directory in new window