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Regulation – Binding Control – Aff “Regulation” are standards that influence conduct Orbach 12 – Barak Orbach, Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law, “What Is Regulation?”, Yale Journal on Regulation, http://yalejreg.com/what-is-regulation/ The legal concept of “regulation” is often perceived as control or constraint. For example, the definitive legal dictionary, Black’s Law Dictionary, defines “regulation” as “the act or process of controlling by rule or restriction.”11 Similarly, The Oxford English Dictionary defines “regulation” as “the action or fact of regulating,” and “to regulate” as “to control, govern, or direct.”12 To many people, “control” connotes “restrictions,” although control may have other meanings. Regulation often imposes no restrictions, but enables, facilitates, or adjusts activities, with no restrictions. Examples of such regulations include the supply of roads, health and emergency services, public education and public libraries, welfare benefits, reliefs to victims of natural disasters and bailouts to failed institutions. Such services directly influence (or “adjust”) conduct of individuals and firms. In the abstract, all government actions supposedly influence conduct of individuals and firms, but not necessarily directly. For example, activities related to national defense and foreign policy tend to have only indirect influence on conduct of individuals and firms.13
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