Author: Arie Freiberg

Arie Freiberg AM is an Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Professor Freiberg’s areas of expertise are sentencing, non-adversarial justice, regulation and the administration of criminal justice. He is a recognised expert on regulation, sentencing and sentencing reform. He is a member of the governing board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Professor Freiberg has produced some 200 publications in a number of areas including criminal law, sentencing, non-adversarial justice, regulatory theory and emotion and public policy.

New book ‘Regulation in Australia’ by Arie Freiberg

In May 2025 a second edition of Regulation in Australia was published.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of regulation, its origins and development in Australia, why governments regulate, how they regulate, and who regulates whom at the federal, state and local government levels. Management of the regulatory process, the principles of good regulation and ‘red tape’ in regulation are examined. The role of soft law, prescriptive, performance-based and principle-based regulation, as well as the use of rewards and incentives in regulation is also explored.

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