Law and Governance

Metaphors from legal systems, governance, regulation, justice, and collective decision-making.

Entries (34)

• Aegis metaphor
• Augean Stables metaphor
• Come with Clean Hands metaphor
• Damocles' Sword metaphor
• Don't Let the Fox Guard the Henhouse metaphor
• False in One Thing, False in All paradigm
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree metaphor
• Hard Cases Make Bad Law mental-model
• He Who Acts Through Another Acts Himself paradigm
• Hear the Other Side mental-model
• Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse paradigm
• Labyrinth metaphor
• Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall paradigm
• Let the Buyer Beware mental-model
• Let the Master Answer paradigm
• Letter vs. Spirit of the Law metaphor
• Necessity Knows No Law mental-model
• No One Gives What They Do Not Have mental-model
• No One Is Bound to the Impossible paradigm
• No One Profits from Their Own Wrong mental-model
• No One Should Judge Their Own Case mental-model
• Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law metaphor
• Prime Directive Is Non-Interference metaphor
• Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes mental-model
• Red Tape metaphor
• Round Table metaphor
• Silence Gives Consent paradigm
• The Exception Proves the Rule metaphor
• The Law Does Not Concern Itself with Trifles mental-model
• The Law Is Harsh but It Is the Law paradigm
• The Thing Speaks for Itself metaphor
• The Willing Suffer No Injury paradigm
• Use Your Own So as Not to Harm Another paradigm
• Where There Is a Right, There Is a Remedy mental-model