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020 _a9781509955404
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020 _z9781509955367
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024 7 _a10.5040/9781509955404
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)1291222670
040 _aCaBNVSL
_beng
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_dCaBNVSL
050 4 _aK3320
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100 1 _aGoddard, David,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMaking laws that work :
_bwhy laws fail and how we can do better /
_cDavid Goddard.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aLondon [England] :
_bHart Publishing,
_c2022
264 2 _a[London, England] :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource (272 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntroduction Part I - Setting the Scene -- 1. When Legislation Fails -- 2. The Ways in Which Legislation Fails -- 3. Learning from Past Failures -- 4. How Humans (Including Legal Designers!) Actually Make Decisions Part II - Lessons for Legal Designers -- 5. Adopting a Structured Approach to Designing New Laws -- 6. What Is the Current Position? -- 7. What Is the Legislation Aiming to Change? -- 8. Who Are the Audiences for the Legislation? -- 9. What Institutions Will the Legislation Depend on? Do They Have the Capacity to Play Their Role? -- 10. How Will the Legislation Change Behaviour? How Might That Go Wrong? -- 11. Adaptive Legislation -- 12. The Implications of New and Emerging Technologies -- 13. Cross-Border Issues -- 14. Attempting Default Settings -- 15. Reducing Complexity Part III -- 16. Checklist for Law Making -- 17. The Primary Checklist -- 18. Benefits Checklist -- 19. Compliance Checklist -- 20. Institutions Checklist -- Appendix 1 Legislation Checklist -- Appendix 2 Background Reading for Legal Designers
506 _aAbstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
520 _a"This book examines why laws fail and provides strategies for making laws that work. Why do some laws fail? And how can we make laws that actually work? This helpful guide, written by a leading jurist, provides answers to these questions and gives practical strategies for law-making. It looks at a range of laws which have failed; the 'damp squibs' that achieve little or nothing in practice; laws that overshoot their policy goals; laws that produce nasty surprises; and laws that backfire, undermining the very goals they were intended to advance. It goes on to examine some of the reasons why such failures occur, drawing on insights from psychology and economics, including the work of Kahneman and others on how humans develop narratives about the ways in which the world works and make predictions about the future. It provides strategies to reduce the risk of failure of legislative projects, including adopting a more structured and systematic approach to analysing the likely effects of the legislation; ensuring we identify the limits of our knowledge and the uncertainties of our predictions; and framing laws in a way that enables us to adjust the way they operate as new information becomes available or circumstances change. Key themes include the importance of the institutions that administer the legislation, of default outcomes, and of the 'stickiness' of those defaults. The book concludes with helpful checklists of questions to ask and issues to consider, which will be of benefit to anyone involved in designing legislation."--
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538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 _aBill drafting.
650 0 _aLegislation.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781509955367
856 4 0 _3Abstract with links to full text
_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955404?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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975 _aHart Publishing 2022
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