Incomprehensible! by Wendy Wagner, Will Walker - 9781107008472

Incomprehensible!A Study of How Our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It\nAuthor(s): Wendy Wagner, Will Walker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107008472, 978-1107008472\nSynopsis\nThe 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.