This model law aims to be a comprehensive and pragmatic basis for real-life law-makers to conceive animal protection laws and regulations adapted to the respective needs of most jurisdictions.

This article explains why comprehensive, adaptable and modular international model laws that point at regulatory choices instead of anticipating them could bring law-making to another level both in terms of regulatory completeness and output.

This article claims that jurisdictions do not necessarily select their regulatory topics in a rational manner. It introduces criteria and a reflection framework to decide whether a specific topic should be subject to regulation.

Under the auspices of the World Health Organisation, states are currently negotiating a convention or instrument on the prevention of pandemics. To support the negotiations and to prepare states for the future transposition of the convention or instrument, the Regulatory Institute has published this model law on pandemics prevention.

More and more aspects of life are covered by the internet. This fact increases the number of relationships that arise between natural and legal persons. This model law aims to regulate cross-border internet activities comprehensively, covering most facets, including up to the level of complexity of “virtual worlds”.