1. Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review, Executive Order 13563 (18 January 2011) at para 1(a) (directing US federal agencies subject to executive oversight to adopt regulations 'based on the best available science' and to 'measure, and seek to improve, the actual results of regulatory requirements'). For academic support, see Michael Abramowicz, Ian Ayres & Yair Listokin, 'Randomizing Law' (2011) 159 U Pa L Rev 929. See also Zachary J Gubler, 'Experimental Rules' (2014) 55 Boston College L Rev 129 [Abramowicz, Ayres & Listokin, 'Randomizing Law']
2. John O McGinnis, 'Laws for Learning in an Age of Acceleration' (2011) 53 Wm & Mary L Rev 305
3. Cass Sunstein, 'Empirically Informed Regulation' (2011) 78 U Chicago L Rev 1349 at 1363-64 (suggesting in article on social science research evidence that continuing empirical research is desirable and citing Executive Order 13563)
4. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance (2012), Annex at 6, para 1.1 ('[r]egulatory policy defines the process by which government, when identifying a policy objective, decides whether to use regulation as a policy instrument, and proceeds to draft and adopt a regulation through evidence-based decision- making')
5. OECD, OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook, 2015 (2015), ch 4 (evaluating countries in terms of whether they use regulatory impact assessment to support evidence-based regulation). It is important to note that aside from recommending careful analysis of data from previously implemented interventions, the OECD does not define the term 'evidence-based' or refer specifically to the idea of prioritizing evidence derived from systematic research.