Making laws that work : why laws fail and how we can do better

Making laws that work : why laws fail and how we can do better /

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Main Author: Goddard, David (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] : Hart Publishing, 2022
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bill drafting.
Legislation.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

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505 0 0 |a Machine generated contents note:   |t Who is this Book For? --   |t Key Themes --   |t Book's Structure --   |t Perspectives from which I have Written this Book --   |t Where to Next? --   |g pt. I   |t SETTING THE SCENE --   |g 1.  |t When Legislation Fails --   |g 2.  |t Ways in which Legislation Fails --   |t Damp Squib --   |t Overshoot --   |t Nasty Surprises --   |t Backfire --   |t Focus on how Legislation Changes Behaviour --   |g 3.  |t Learning from Past Failures --   |t Learning from Failure --   |t Causes of Legal Design Failures --   |t Stories We Tell Ourselves about the Laws We Design --   |t Importance of Team Composition and Dynamics --   |t Better Model of the World for which We are Designing --   |t How Can We Do Better? --   |t Implications of Our Limited Ability to Make Reliable Predictions --   |g 4.  |t How Humans (Including Legal Designers) Actually Make Decisions --   |t Over-Confidence --   |t Substitution --   |t Availability Heuristic --   |t Affect Heuristic --   |t Anchoring Effect --   |t Representativeness Heuristic --   |t Confirmation Bias --   |t Loss Aversion --   |t Status Quo Bias --   |t Framing Effect --   |t Social Influences --   |t Planning Fallacy --   |t Impact of Bias and Noise in Legal Design --   |g pt. II   |t LESSONS FOR LEGAL DESIGNERS --   |g 5.  |t Adopting a Structured Approach to Designing New Laws --   |t Importance of a Structured Approach --   |t Responding to Uncertainty: Adaptive Legislation --   |t Some Tools to Improve How Legislation Works --   |t Who should do the Legal Design Work? --   |t Three Concerns --   |g 6.  |t What is the Current Position? --   |t What is the Current Law? How Does it Operate in Practice? --   |t Gap between the Law on Paper and the Law in Operation --   |t Gathering Information about How Laws Operate --   |g 7.  |t What is the Legislation Aiming to Change? --   |g 8.  |t Who are the Audiences for the Legislation? --   |g 9.  |t What Institutions will the Legislation Depend on? Do they have the Capacity to Play their Role? --   |t Identifying the Relevant Institutions --   |t Do those Institutions have the Capacity to Play their Intended Role? --   |t Addressing Concerns about Institutional Capacity --   |g 10.  |t How will the Legislation Change Behaviour? How might that go Wrong? --   |t How will the Legislation Change Behaviour? --   |t Has this been Tried Elsewhere? --   |t Two Critical Questions --   |t How does the Law Operate Elsewhere? Is it a Success? --   |t Will Success Elsewhere Translate into Your Society? --   |t Summary: Precedents are Useful but Caution is Needed --   |t Is a Trial/Pilot an Option? --   |t Assessing the Risk of Failure to Achieve the Desired Change --   |t Pre-Mortem for the Legislation --   |g 11.  |t Adaptive Legislation --   |t Need for Adaptive Legislation --   |t Uncertainty about the Status Quo --   |t Uncertainty about the Effectiveness of the Legislation Over Time --   |t Implications of Changing Technology --   |t Designing Adaptive Legislation --   |t Delegated Rule-Making --   |t Legislating Principles --   |t Some Hybrids --   |t Express Provision for Reviews? --   |t Express Provision for Experiments? --   |t Need for a Baseline, and for Monitoring and Review --   |t Wilful Blindness --   |g 12.  |t Implications of New and Emerging Technologies --   |t Laws should Adapt to Technological Change --   |t Harnessing New Technologies to Make Better Laws, and to Make Laws Work Better --   |g 13.  |t Cross-Border Issues --   |t Cross-Border Issues are Common --   |t Addressing Cross-Border Issues --   |g 14.  |t Adjusting Default Settings --   |t Importance of Default Settings --   |t Adjusting Default Settings to Make it Easier to Benefit from Legislation --   |t Adjusting Default Settings to Address Institutional Capacity Concerns --   |t Risk of Overshoots? --   |g 15.  |t Reducing Complexity --   |t Standards, Rules and Complexity --   |t Discretion --   |t Other Options for Reducing Complexity and Increasing Predictability --   |t Importance of Institutions for Making these Approaches Work --   |t Institutional Arrangements that Avoid or Reduce Complexity --   |t Selecting an Appropriate Approach --   |g pt. III   |t CHECKLISTS --   |g 16.  |t Checklists for Law Makers? --   |t Structure of the Checklists --   |t How should the Checklists be Used? --   |g 17.  |t Primary Checklist --   |g Item 1   |t What is the Current Position? --   |g Item 2   |t What is the Legislation Aiming to Change? --   |g Item 3   |t Who are the Audiences for the Legislation? --   |g Item 4   |t What Institutions will the Legislation Depend on? Do they have the Capacity to Play their Role? --   |g Item 5   |t Has this been Tried Elsewhere? How did that Go? How Relevant is their Experience? --   |g Item 6   |t Is a Trial/Pilot an Option? --   |g Item 7   |t How will the Legislation Contribute to Changes in Behaviour? --   |g Item 8   |t Can the Legislation Adapt to take Account of New Information and/or Changed Circumstances? --   |g Item 9   |t Does the Legislation take Cross-Border Issues into Account? --   |g Item 10   |t Telling the Story -- The Narrative Explaining the Reasons for the Reform --   |g 18.  |t Benefits Checklist --   |g B1.  |t Who is the Legislation Intended to Benefit? What Benefits are those Beneficiaries Intended to Obtain? --   |g B2.  |t What Criteria do the Beneficiaries Need to Meet to Qualify for those Benefits? --   |g B3.  |t How will the Beneficiaries Become Aware of the Availability of those Benefits, and How to Obtain them? --   |g B4.  |t Can Receipt of those Benefits be made a Default Setting that does not require any Specific Action from Beneficiaries? --   |g B5.  |t If Beneficiaries are Required to make an Active Decision, or take Active Steps, What can be Done to make this as Simple and Easy as Possible? --   |g 19.  |t Compliance Checklist --   |g C1.  |t Who is Required to take Steps to Comply with the Legislation? What is each Relevant Compliance Group Required to Do? --   |g C2.  |t Can Some Compliance Obligations be Reduced or Eliminated? --   |g C3.  |t How will each Compliance Group be made Aware of their Obligations? --   |g C4.  |t What can be Done to Make Compliance as Simple and Easy as Possible? --   |g C5.  |t What can be Done to Encourage Compliance? --   |g 20.  |t Institutions Checklist --   |g I1.  |t What Institutions will Play a Role in Implementing the Legislation? What Decisions and Actions will they be Required to Take? --   |g I2.  |t Will each of those Institutions have the Capacity and Will to Perform its Role? --   |g I3.  |t How can any Concerns about Institutional Capacity be Addressed? --   |g I1.  |t Improving the Checklists --   |t APPENDICES --   |g Appendix 1   |t Legislation Checklists --   |t Primary Checklist --   |t Benefits Checklist --   |t Compliance Checklist --   |t Institutions Checklist --   |g Appendix 2   |t Background Reading for Legal Designers --   |t Highly Recommended Reading --   |t Suggested Reading. 
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