Incomprehensible!: A Study of How Our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do about It

ISBN-13: 9781107008472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 356 str.

Wendy Wagner

Opis

Explains how the law often encourages actors to be incomprehensible in ways that actually undermine the purpose of the laws themselves.

Recenzje

'This is a valuable read for students, academics, and practitioners.' F. E. Knowles, Choice

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Part I. The Concept: 1. Introduction; 2. Modeling comprehension asymmetries; 3. The implications of comprehension asymmetries for the law; Part II. Application: 4. Comprehension asymmetries and consumer protection law; 5A. Comprehension asymmetries in financial regulation; 5B. Comprehension asymmetries in the law of patents; 5C. Comprehension asymmetries in chemical regulation; 6. Comprehension asymmetries in administrative process; 7. Comprehension asymmetries in legislative processes; Part III. System-Wide Reform: 8. A blueprint for reform; Bibliography.