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8 - A Blueprint for Reform

from Part III - Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

Wendy Wagner  and
Will Walker
Wendy Wagner
Affiliation:
University of Texas School of Law
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Summary

In a number of prominent legal programs, institutional design of the underlying processes allows speakers to shift the costs of processing their message to ill-equipped audiences. Such a design is unstable and leads to incomprehensible communications and failed legal goals. This final chapter discusses the social consequences of these institutional design problems and offers general recommendations for reform.

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cooperative communicationinstitutional designregulatory programincentivesprocessing costsreformlegal architecturesanctionsrewards
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Incomprehensible!
A Study of How our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It
 , pp. 247 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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