Re: Latest draft of 2B

Dan L. Burk <burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu> wrote:
>
> There is a very sizeable literature on how the UCC "private legislature"
> drafting process is subject to special interest capture -- perhaps to an
> even greater extent than the public legislature, if such a thing can be
> imagined -- together with many bitter complaints about the results of
> previous article revisions.
>
> But no one seems to have paid much attention to it, so Santayana is
> right again.

   Good point. Another very relevant example of this are the international negotiations on treaties and harmonization issues, which are almost entirely controlled by a handful of large firms and trade associations.

    Jamie

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