# kaal:claim:2831040-007

**Claim.** Facts based, ex post, trial and error rulemaking cannot anticipate the regulatory issues created by innovation, so rulemakers may never recognize, or may recognize only much too late, which new regulatory demands apply to a given innovation.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- ex post trial and error rulemaking in the existing regulatory framework

**Source quote.**

> Because facts-based, ex-post, trial-and-error-rulemaking cannot anticipate regulatory issues created by innovation, rulemakers may not at all–or

**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.** ex post rulemaking blindness  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** dynamic-regulation

**Keywords.** trial-and-error-rulemaking, ex-post-regulation, anticipation, pacing-problem

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2957645-002
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-017
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-029
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-016
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-002

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