ABSTRACT
As a rule, the law must be published – that is, made publicly available, disclosed, or promulgated – in order to be applied. However, the fiction of universal knowledge of the law shifts the responsibility for effective dissemination of legal information onto the law’s addressees. This chapter examines the ways in which legal information is actively conveyed to addressees and how it is received, in terms of both facilitating reception and influencing the application of the law.
