Books & publications · Christine Hillier
When a public decision changes your life, you should be able to see its grounds, challenge an error, and find out whether the correction took effect.
Kindle available now · Print editions September 29, 2026
The Duty to Correct · Christine Hillier
The author & the work
I’m Christine Hillier, founder of Kapukai Governance Lab. I bring an engineering approach to decisions that affect people’s freedom, families, and access to services.
My books examine who may act, what evidence a decision requires, how someone can challenge it, and how to verify that a correction reaches the systems still using the old information.
Through Public Decision Systems Engineering, I turn those questions into proposed requirements, testable models, and tools for review. Truth as a public utility.
Six books. Different entry points into the same problem.
Making corrections take effect
Proposed Legislation for Accountable Public Power
Proposed rules for checking authority, reviewing mistakes, and making sure corrections reach the places where errors still cause harm.
Explore the book →How self-government works
Engineering a Living System of Self-Government
How can people delegate power while keeping decisions open to evidence, challenge, and correction?
Explore the book →Testing whether safeguards work
A Truth Architecture for Human Systems
A framework for asking what an institution must do, how it can fail, and what evidence shows that its safeguards work.
Explore the book →Review when liberty is at stake
A Structural Analysis of Liberty Failure
What happens when decisions affecting liberty cannot be reconstructed or reviewed in time?
Explore the book →Examining child-removal decisions
An Authority and Evidence Atlas of Child-Welfare Removal Decisions
An authority and evidence atlas for examining child-removal decisions, beginning with Florida and selected federal systems.
Explore the book →How records become authority
A Safety Invariant for Authority Systems
How records become authority—and how to keep them accountable. A stored claim must not become grounds for power merely because it appears in a record.
Explore the book →Beyond the books
Proposed legislation
The Duty to Correct includes proposed federal provisions and adaptable state provisions for review and correction.
Read the proposals →Working paper
A Ground Integrity Framework for Human and Hybrid Governance Systems. Posted on Cambridge Open Engage; not peer-reviewed by Cambridge University Press.
Read the working paper →Working drafts
A proposed way to check the conditions for a decision, record its evidence, and connect failures to review and correction.
Explore the drafts →The work must be open to correction, too. Find the affected edition, locate the claim, and report what needs to change. Book corrections →