Law as Engineering: Thinking About What Lawyers Do

‘David Howarth’s Law as Engineering is a profound contribution to the law. Evoking the level of originality associated with pioneering contributions to law and economics half a century ago, Howarth’s book aligns law, not on economics, but on engineering styles of thought and problem solving. His analysis sheds deep light on a 21st century world where the work of transactional and legislative lawyers, who design and build social structures and devices much as engineers do physical ones, is becoming ever more important and complex, with far-reaching implications for both legal ethics and legal education.’…
Law as Engineering proposes a radically new way of thinking about law, as a profession and discipline concerned with design rather than with litigation, and having much in common with engineering in the way it produces devices useful for its clients. It uses that comparison to propose ways of improving legal design, to advocate a transformation of legal ethics so that the profession learns from its role in the crash of 2008, and to reform legal education and research.
Offering a totally new perspective, this book will be a fascinating read for law students and prospective law students, legal academics across all sub-fields, lawyers in government, especially those engaged in drafting legislation, and policymakers.

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  • mstdn .science/@JoePajak/111862453165417697 (‘ Dr Joe Pajak : 💯’Britain needs to clean up its politics by reforming Whitehall and Westminster’. Recommendations include enshrining the ethical aspects of the Ministerial Code into law, & creating a statutory commissioner to oversee it. Prof David Howarth @Cambridge_Uni Feb 02, 2024 ‘)
  • cam .ac.uk/stories/howarth-governance-project (‘ Britain needs to clean up its politics by reforming Whitehall and Westminster – just as it did in the 19th century. 1- the UK Governance Project ‘)
  • https://www.landecon .cam.ac.uk/directory/david-howarth (‘ David Howarth, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Former Head of Department (2020-2023) ‘)
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