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Testing alternative legal paradigms: An experiment in designing legislation

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Cooper, Graeme; Wenzel, Michael

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This article reports on empirical research undertaken to test the claim made in a law reform project that citizens could be made more certain of their legal obligations by changing the legal paradigm used to express their rights and obligations. Our research tested a number of hypotheses involving different formulations of the claim being made. We find that the alternative paradigm being presented was inferior to current practice and offer some reasons that would explain our results and the...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorCooper, Graeme
dc.contributor.authorWenzel, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:33:04Z
dc.identifier.issn0897-6546
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/23095
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on empirical research undertaken to test the claim made in a law reform project that citizens could be made more certain of their legal obligations by changing the legal paradigm used to express their rights and obligations. Our research tested a number of hypotheses involving different formulations of the claim being made. We find that the alternative paradigm being presented was inferior to current practice and offer some reasons that would explain our results and the significance of this work for other areas of legal research.
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.sourceLaw and Social Inquiry
dc.titleTesting alternative legal paradigms: An experiment in designing legislation
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume34
dc.date.issued2009
local.identifier.absfor180119 - Law and Society
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3966797xPUB25
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationCooper, Graeme, University of Sydney
local.contributor.affiliationWenzel, Michael, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage61
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage94
local.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1747-4469.2009.01139.x
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T10:27:08Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-60649094735
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