This reminds me of an old article by David D. Friedman, "Choosing Metarules for Legal Change". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Metarules/Metarules.html

This reminds me of an old article by David D. Friedman, "Choosing Metarules for Legal Change". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Metarules/Metarules.html http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Metarules/Metarules.h... It discusses some of the problems with both horns of the dilemma about changing rules.