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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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The Perspectives from which I have Written this Book |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (6) |
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11 | (4) |
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2 The Ways in which Legislation Fails |
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17 | (3) |
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20 | (2) |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (2) |
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A Focus on how Legislation Changes Behaviour |
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27 | (4) |
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3 Learning from Past Failures |
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Causes of Legal Design Failures |
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves about the Laws We Design |
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34 | (2) |
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The Importance of Team Composition and Dynamics |
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36 | (1) |
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A Better Model of the World for which We are Designing |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (2) |
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The Implications of Our Limited Ability to Make Reliable Predictions |
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41 | (4) |
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4 How Humans (Including Legal Designers) Actually Make Decisions |
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45 | (14) |
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45 | (1) |
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The Availability Heuristic |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (2) |
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The Representativeness Heuristic |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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The Impact of Bias and Noise in Legal Design |
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54 | (5) |
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PART II LESSONS FOR LEGAL DESIGNERS |
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5 Adopting a Structured Approach to Designing New Laws |
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The Importance of a Structured Approach |
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59 | (1) |
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Responding to Uncertainty: Adaptive Legislation |
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60 | (1) |
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Some Tools to Improve How Legislation Works |
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60 | (1) |
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Who should do the Legal Design Work? |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (3) |
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6 What is the Current Position? |
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What is the Current Law? How Does it Operate in Practice? |
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The Gap between the Law on Paper and the Law in Operation |
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Gathering Information about How Laws Operate |
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7 What is the Legislation Aiming to Change? |
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8 Who are the Audiences for the Legislation? |
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76 | (6) |
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9 What Institutions will the Legislation Depend on? Do they have the Capacity to Play their Role? |
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Identifying the Relevant Institutions |
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Do those Institutions have the Capacity to Play their Intended Role? |
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Addressing Concerns about Institutional Capacity |
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10 How will the Legislation Change Behaviour? How might that go Wrong? |
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How will the Legislation Change Behaviour? |
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Has this been Tried Elsewhere? |
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91 | (1) |
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How does the Law Operate Elsewhere? Is it a Success? |
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Will Success Elsewhere Translate into Your Society? |
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Summary: Precedents are Useful but Caution is Needed |
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Is a Trial/Pilot an Option? |
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94 | (2) |
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Assessing the Risk of Failure to Achieve the Desired Change |
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96 | (1) |
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A Pre-Mortem for the Legislation |
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97 | (2) |
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99 | (15) |
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The Need for Adaptive Legislation |
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99 | (1) |
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Uncertainty about the Status Quo |
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100 | (1) |
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Uncertainty about the Effectiveness of the Legislation Over Time |
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100 | (1) |
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The Implications of Changing Technology |
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101 | (1) |
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Designing Adaptive Legislation |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (4) |
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Express Provision for Reviews? |
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108 | (1) |
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Express Provision for Experiments? |
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109 | (1) |
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The Need for a Baseline, and for Monitoring and Review |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (3) |
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12 The Implications of New and Emerging Technologies |
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Laws should Adapt to Technological Change |
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114 | (3) |
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Harnessing New Technologies to Make Better Laws, and to Make Laws Work Better |
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117 | (4) |
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121 | (5) |
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Cross-Border Issues are Common |
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121 | (1) |
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Addressing Cross-Border Issues |
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122 | (4) |
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14 Adjusting Default Settings |
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The Importance of Default Settings |
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126 | (1) |
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Adjusting Default Settings to Make it Easier to Benefit from Legislation |
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127 | (4) |
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Adjusting Default Settings to Address Institutional Capacity Concerns |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (3) |
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136 | (13) |
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Standards, Rules and Complexity |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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Other Options for Reducing Complexity and Increasing Predictability |
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139 | (1) |
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The Importance of Institutions for Making these Approaches Work |
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140 | (1) |
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Institutional Arrangements that Avoid or Reduce Complexity |
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141 | (2) |
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Selecting an Appropriate Approach |
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143 | (6) |
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16 Checklists for Law Makers? |
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149 | (6) |
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The Structure of the Checklists |
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149 | (2) |
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How should the Checklists be Used? |
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151 | (4) |
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155 | (7) |
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Item 1 What is the Current Position? |
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155 | (1) |
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Item 2 What is the Legislation Aiming to Change? |
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156 | (1) |
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Item 3 Who are the Audiences for the Legislation? |
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157 | (1) |
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Item 4 What Institutions will the Legislation Depend on? Do they have the Capacity to Play their Role? |
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157 | (1) |
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Item 5 Has this been Tried Elsewhere? How did that Go? How Relevant is their Experience? |
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157 | (1) |
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Item 6 Is a Trial/Pilot an Option? |
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158 | (1) |
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Item 7 How will the Legislation Contribute to Changes in Behaviour? |
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158 | (1) |
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Item 8 Can the Legislation Adapt to take Account of New Information and/or Changed Circumstances? |
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159 | (1) |
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Item 9 Does the Legislation take Cross-Border Issues into Account? |
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Item 10 Telling the Story -- The Narrative Explaining the Reasons for the Reform |
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160 | (2) |
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162 | (9) |
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B1 Who is the Legislation Intended to Benefit? What Benefits are those Beneficiaries Intended to Obtain? |
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163 | (1) |
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B2 What Criteria do the Beneficiaries Need to Meet to Qualify for those Benefits? |
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164 | (1) |
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B3 How will the Beneficiaries Become Aware of the Availability of those Benefits, and How to Obtain them? |
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B4 Can Receipt of those Benefits be made a Default Setting that does not require any Specific Action from Beneficiaries? |
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166 | (1) |
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B5 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? |
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167 | (4) |
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171 | (8) |
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C1 Who is Required to take Steps to Comply with the Legislation? What is each Relevant Compliance Group Required to Do? |
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172 | (1) |
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C2 Can Some Compliance Obligations be Reduced or Eliminated? |
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172 | (2) |
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C3 How will each Compliance Group be made Aware of their Obligations? |
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C4 What can be Done to Make Compliance as Simple and Easy as Possible? |
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175 | (1) |
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C5 What can be Done to Encourage Compliance? |
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176 | (3) |
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20 Institutions Checklist |
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179 | (8) |
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I1 What Institutions will Play a Role in Implementing the Legislation? What Decisions and Actions will they be Required to Take? |
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179 | (1) |
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I2 Will each of those Institutions have the Capacity and Will to Perform its Role? |
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180 | (1) |
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I3 How can any Concerns about Institutional Capacity be Addressed? |
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181 | (1) |
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I1 Improving the Checklists |
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182 | (5) |
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Appendix 1 Legislation Checklists |
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187 | (6) |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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Appendix 2 Background Reading for Legal Designers |
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193 | (2) |
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Highly Recommended Reading |
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193 | (1) |
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193 | (2) |
Index |
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