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[email protected]. Journal of Institutional Economics: page 1 of 19 C Millennium Economics Ltd 2017 doi:10.1017/S1744137417000030 Laws, norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework ∗ DANIEL H. COLE Maurer School of Law and School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA Abstract. Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework has been described as ‘one of the most developed and sophisticated attempts to use institutional and stakeholder assessment in order to link theory and practice, analysis and policy’. But not all elements in the framework are sufficiently well developed. This paper focuses on one such element: the ‘rules-in-use’ (a.k.a. ‘rules’ or ‘working rules’). Specifically, it begins a long-overdue conversation about relations between formal legal rules and ‘working rules’ by offering a tentative and very simple typology of relations.