Unintended Legislative Inertia
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2021

Institutional and political forces create strong inertial pressures that make the updating of legislation a difficult task As a result laws and regulations often stagnate leading to the continued existence of obsolete rules and policies that serve longforgotten purposes Recognizing the inertial power of past policies legislatures over the last few decades have increasingly relied on a perceived solution "” temporary legislation In theory this measure avoids inertia because it requires legislator