Legal certainty

Legal certainty is a principle in national and international law which holds that the law must provide those subject to it with the ability to regulate their conduct.

See also

• Due process
• International human rights law
• Rational basis test

Further reading

• Gerit Betlem, The Doctrine of Consistent Interpretation—Managing Legal Uncertainty, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2002.
• Anthony D'Amato, Legal Uncertainty, California Law Review, 1983.
• Uri Weiss, The Regressive Effect of Legal Uncertainty, The Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2019.

References