# kaal:claim:2831040-006

**Claim.** The pacing problem is partly a byproduct of the goal of legal certainty: because regulation is designed to be a durable source of predictability, rulemaking driven by legal certainty cannot keep pace as innovation accelerates.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- accelerating innovation

**Source quote.**

> regulation is commonly perceived as a source of predictability and is meant to last; as innovation accelerates, rulemaking driven by legal certainty cannot keep pace

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Dynamic Regulation for Innovation* (2016), II. Law's Diminishing Capacity to React to Innovation, page 9

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040

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**Failure mode.** legal certainty trap  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, dynamic-regulation

**Keywords.** legal-certainty, predictability, pacing-problem, rulemaking

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2273857-009

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