This article was updated on 03/08/2026.
The Regulatory Institute undertook another comparative Large Language Models (LLMs) test. Its purpose was to assess the ability of LLMs to identify and draft candidate policy and regulatory elements that make a law more effective. The results are surprising. Previous test results have mostly become obsolete, whilst our generic recommendations on how to use LLMs remain valid. Continue reading AI for legislative content: new Large Language Models ranking
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping legislative drafting. Across governments and parliaments, AI tools are increasingly used to assist with formatting, cross-referencing, linguistic consistency, and procedural compliance. The gains in speed and consistency are real. But the substantive knowledge required to determine whether a law is complete, enforceable, and informed by relevant international practice remains lacking. Continue reading The legislation gap that AI has not yet closed
Across Europe and beyond, ‘deregulation’ and ‘simplification’ are back at the top of the political agenda. The promise is familiar: if only legislators took a chainsaw to the regulatory forest, growth would return and bureaucracy would recede. Similar calls have echoed since the 1980s, but they are now reinforced by global political figures and by parts of the EU’s own institutional and lobbying landscape.
This contribution argues that sweeping deregulation and radical simplification are structurally at odds with core EU objectives: a well-functioning internal market, a high level of consumer, environmental and safety protection, and legal certainty for economic operators. It also outlines a different path: reducing regulatory burden by refining how we regulate, rather than by dismantling the rules that hold the Single Market together. Continue reading Why deregulation will backfire–and how to cut regulatory burden without breaking the EU Single Market
Since late 2015, the Regulatory Institute has focused on a particular aspect of lawmaking that receives little attention but matters enormously: how to design laws and regulations that actually work. Rather than engaging with political choices or policy outcomes or the drafting approach, our work has concentrated on the methods, tools, concepts and structures that shape laws long before they are adopted; and ultimately determine whether they will achieve their intended purpose.
This article looks back at the Regulatory Institute’s journey over the past decade: a journey dedicated to helping lawmakers and regulators worldwide create better laws. Continue reading The Regulatory Institute’s 10th Anniversary: Looking back and forward
These model provisions were designed to establish a comprehensive framework for the
protection of minors in digital environments. As children and adolescents increasingly
engage with online platforms, social media, gaming services, and other digital technologies, they face unique vulnerabilities that existing regulatory frameworks often fail to adequately address. Continue reading Model Provisions for the Online Protection of Minors
This document contains around 700 model provisions. The purpose of the model provisions is to offer policy-makers and drafters as many choices as possible as to the potential policy and regulatory elements on the subject in question, without prejudging any decision. The model provisions will, of course, need to be adapted to the legal and policy context in which they are used. In particular, obligations and powers may need to be assigned to authorities and persons other than those set out in the model provisions. The model provisions are intended solely as a source of inspiration and a checklist, without any claim to validity. Continue reading Model Provisions for Food and Drinks Legislation
In 2023, we published a preliminary version of this model law as the negotiations of the WHO aiming at the conclusions of a WHO Pandemic Agreement were still ongoing. Now that the WHO Pandemic Agreement has been finalised, so has this model law. Continue reading Revised Pandemics Model Law
The European Commission has initiated a comprehensive review of the European standardisation system. This article claims that the Commission’s initial analysis is incomplete with regard to the difficulty of salvaging a formal legal role for European standards. It describes how the standards nonetheless can keep an important role, though through the back door. Continue reading A new Role for Standards in the EU Regulatory System
The Regulatory Institute posted in February 2025 this article on “Which Large Language Models are best for regulatory work?”. Here is the first update. Continue reading Updates: Which Large Language Models are best for regulatory work?