Structuring lawmaking to reduce cognitive bias: a critical view.(administrative law) From: Cornell Law Review | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Eskridge, William N., Jr.; Ferejohn, John A. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Cornell University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The most interesting issues of public law (for us) are those relating to institutional design and function. When thinking about statutory interpretation, judicial review, and legislative and administrative procedures, it is useful to have a theory about how the governmental system works in our regulatory state, how it breaks down, and how it leads to decisions that do not serve the public interest. Hence, theories of regulatory pathology are useful. Within the academy, public choic...