Abstract
This special issue of the journal tackles the question of law, democracy, and social justice: to what extent do legal forms and institutions help or hinder the implementation of egalitarian policies? Can legal regulation effectively promote social justice and democracy? The effectiveness of the regulation of business has been the subject of extensive socio-legal research and analysis. Laws have been introduced ostensibly to provide individual rights for the less powerful in society or to protect collective interests against the absolute rights of property or the absolute right of business to pursue profit maximisation. Health and safety codes, pollution regulations, rent control, and anti-discrimination legislation are good examples. Yet research on the effectiveness of the regulation of business has not been optimistic. Although the tendency to critical assessment in the social sciences may often underplay the measure of real progress achieved by legal reform, it is nonetheless the case that research has tended to highlight the limitations of regulation rather than its
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