Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making. Their
insights are immensely relevant for policy-making since public intervention works much …

The existence or non‐existence of procedural rules for executive rule‐making in the EU is
not merely a 'technical'question free of constitutional value choices. This article argues that …

Impact assessments are an important component of a better regulation programme—an
initiative of the European Commission launched to improve the quality and transparency of …

What is effective legislation? Is it a matter of intuition, luck or the result of evidence based
law making? Can it be consciously 'engineered'? This book advances the novel idea that …

The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the emerging, yet largely undefined,
principle of openness in EU law. After addressing the semantic confusion existing between …

Abstract Since 2003, the European Commission has produced analytical documents (called
Impact Assessments, IAs) to appraise its policy proposals. This appraisal process is the …

This book examines the potential role of European Union law in combating poverty and
social exclusion in the European Union. Anti-poverty strategies have been part of the …

This chapter explores how AI could help improve both the process and the outcome of
lawmaking by legislators. Among the possible applications of AI in lawmaking discussed in …

Nudges having paternalistic purposes (paternalistic nudges) pose special legal problems in
liberal States. Surprisingly, the discussion on regulation-by-nudging has not focused on the …

Impact assessment (IA) has gone from an innocuous technical tool typically used in the pre‐
legislative phase to an instrument at the heart of the E uropean institutional machinery …