The Redesigning the Governance Stack initiative seeks to reinvent the administrative state, to govern technology in ways that prioritize public values and effectively counter the harms of the information economy. Through this project, academics and regulars convene in workshops to ideate and write concept papers.

The initiative’s newest paper “Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism” is authored by Julie E. Cohen, Nina-Simone Edwards, Meg Leta Jones, and Paul Ohm, and explores how regulators can translate decisions about public values—such as “avoid deceiving consumers”—into operationalized forms that support iteration and experimentation.

The concept paper outlines a dynamic regulatory toolkit, with ideas including:

• Continuous adversarial testing
• Policy sandboxes
• Premarket certification and/or licensing regimes

Read the paper on our website: