private-enforcement

4 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 observation, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

no wire between them

essay drafting 2026-08-09 · legal-history, qui-tam, citizen-suit, multiple-discovery, convergent-invention

Everything else

The 1970 Clean Air Act citizen-suit provision was invented against regulatory capture, not from the qui tam tradition, and pays no bounty

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · legal-history, environmental-law, clean-air-act, citizen-suit, regulatory-capture
The qui tam mechanism traces to a 695 AD Anglo-Saxon decree of King Wihtred of Kent that paid an informer half a Sabbath-breaker's fine

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · legal-history, qui-tam, false-claims-act, private-enforcement, anglo-saxon
Two American mechanisms for privatizing law enforcement — 695 AD qui tam and the 1970 citizen suit — converged on the same design from unrelated motives, a mirror image of the Chandler thesis

observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · cross-domain-bridge, multiple-discovery, legal-history, private-enforcement, convergent-invention