# kaal:claim:2834531-004

**Claim.** Regulation is never grounded in the full set of facts about a technology; it is always premised on a prior selection of the facts that regulators themselves treat as relevant when deciding what, when, and how to intervene.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> In this respect, regulation is always premised on a selection of relevant facts about a particular technology.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), III. THE FACTUAL BASIS OF MODERN REGULATION, page 11

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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**Topics.** dynamic-regulation, innovation

**Keywords.** fact-based-regulation, regulatory-design, epistemics-of-regulation, disruptive-technology

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