Addressing Disconnection: Automated Decision-Making, Administrative Law and Regulatory Reform

Making the case for gun law reform.

The gun death rates in New Zealand from suicide and homicide are considerably higher than in Australia. In 2005, these gun death rates per 100,000 people were .91 in Australia 1,2,3 and 1.3 in New Zealand.4 Are the higher death rates in New Zealand a result of your country’s relatively relaxed laws in relation to gun ownership? Apart from exceptions such as pistols, military-style semi automati...

RUNNING HEAD: Regulatory focus and political decision making Regulatory Focus and Political Decision Making: When People Favor Reform Over the Status Quo

Summary. Sentencing law and sentencing decision making

The initial context of this research – judicial cooperation with regard to consistency in sentencing This dissertation is part of a research project in which the phenomenon of judicial cooperation in several areas of the law has been taken as a starting point. The concept of judicial cooperation describes informal structures and products thereof of judicial policymaking for the purpose of the s...

Making decisions about decision-making: conscience, regulation, and the law.

The exercise of conscience can have far reaching effects. Poor behaviour can be fatal, as it has occurred in various medical scandals over the years. This article takes a wide definition of conscience as its starting point, and argues that the decision-making processes open to society--legal regulation and professional regulation--can serve to limit the options available to an individual and th...

Clarence Thomas and Administrative Law