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

Wagner, Wendy; Walker, Will

 
9781107008472: Incomprehensible!: A Study of How Our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It
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ISBN 10 : 1107008476 ISBN 13 : 9781107008472
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The legal system is awash with excessive and incomprehensible information. Yet many of us assume that the unrelenting torrent of information pouring into various legal programs is both inevitable and unstoppable. We have become complacent; but it does not have to be this way. Incomprehensible! argues that surrendering to incomprehensibility is a bad mistake. Drawing together evidence from diverse fields such as consumer protection, financial regulation, patents, chemical control, and administrative and legislative processes, this book identifies a number of important legal programs that are built on the foundational assumption that 'more information is better'. Each of these legal processes have been designed in ways that ignore the imperative of meaningful communication. To rectify this systemic problem, the law must be re-designed to pay careful attention to the problem of incomprehensibility.

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À propos des auteurs

Wendy Wagner is Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law. She is the author of two books: Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research with Tom McGarity (2008), which received the Hamilton Grand Prize for the best book published at University of Texas in 2009, and Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research with Rena Steinzor (Cambridge, 2006).

Will Walker is a freelance writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a B.A. in English from Williams College, a Masters in Philosophy of Religion from Harvard Divinity School, and is currently pursuing a law degree at Harvard Law School.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107008476
ISBN 13 
9781107008472
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
356
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9781107400887: Incomprehensible!: A Study of How Our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It

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ISBN 10 :  1107400880 ISBN 13 :  9781107400887
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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