Don't burn your bridge before you come to it: some ambiguities and complexities of precommitment

Abstract

Focuses on the ambiguities in the concept of precommitment to law. Exposition of the ends and means or the rationales and techniques of the concept; Discussion on the distinction between strategic and nonstrategic precommitment; Traditional claim that precommitment is a cold decision carried out to forestall hot decisions at later times.