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Regulatory Mapping and Compliance Analytics
Turn a regulation into duties, decide whether it applies, link each duty to a control, keep the map current and measure whether it works.
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A regulation is written for a whole industry. A business has to answer it with something much smaller and more concrete: a named person doing a named thing by a named date, and a record that shows it was done. Regulatory mapping is the discipline of getting from the first to the second, and it is quickly becoming a core skill for compliance lawyers, in-house counsel, legal operations teams and anyone who advises regulated businesses. Most organisations do it informally, in the heads of two or three people, until one of them leaves, a new law arrives or a regulator asks how a particular duty is met. This course teaches the work as a whole, in seven modules and a capstone. You learn the chain from regulation to obligation, control, evidence and test; how to take a sentence of a law apart into duties, prohibitions, permissions and recommendations; how to decide whether a regulation applies when some facts are not yet known; how to link duties to controls and read the map for gaps, paper cover, single points of failure and orphans; how to build once and comply many times across several regimes; how to track regulatory change and compare versions; and how to measure whether the whole thing works, without vanity metrics. It is written in jurisdiction-neutral terms, with invented regulations and companies, and it tells you what to check in the law where you work.
The Curriculum
What regulatory mapping is: from rule to obligation, control and evidence→
The chain from regulation to obligation, control, evidence and test, the obligations register, ownership and the limits of a map. Practice: Where Are We in the Chain, Which Link Is It and Spot the Gap.
Finding and reading obligations: from sentences to duties→
The parts of an obligation, four kinds of sentence, splitting articles, defined terms and vague standards, the hierarchy of sources and the obligation statement. Practice: Duty or Not, Reading a Vague Standard and the Obligation Extractor tool.
Scope and applicability: does the regulation reach us, and how far?→
Entity, activity, product, size and territory tests, how required conditions, alternatives and exemptions combine, unknown facts, groups and re-testing. Practice: Does It Reach Us, Which Test Is It and the Scope Screener tool.
Mapping obligations to controls: coverage, gaps and single points of failure→
Preventive, detective and corrective controls, control statements, status, coverage classes, orphans and overloaded controls, and honest coverage numbers. Practice: Which Kind of Control, Reading the Map and the Control Mapper tool.
Many regulations, one framework: overlap, crosswalks and conflicts→
Overlap between regimes, crosswalks, common control frameworks, highest common denominator versus local variants, conflicts of law and keeping the map maintainable. Practice: Overlap or Conflict, One Control or Two and a second go with the Control Mapper.
Tracking regulatory change: from horizon scan to updated map→
Horizon scanning, the life cycle of a rule, impact assessment, comparing versions, change logs, decisions and the limits of alerts and summaries. Practice: Where Is the Rule in Its Life, Tighter or Looser and the Change Comparer tool.
Compliance analytics and metrics: measuring whether it works→
Leading and lagging indicators, vanity versus real metrics, rates, testing and sample sizes, incidents, remediation time, gaming, risk-based priorities and honest reporting. Practice: Which Metric Means Something, Read the Dashboard and Spot the Spin.
Capstone: Capstone: Corvane Pay enters Marlen→
A payments company, a new country, an unfinished set of facts and a board that wants to know when it can launch. Read the law, decide scope, map the controls, compare the amendment and report honestly.
What It Covers
“You will be able to turn a new regulation into a map that an owner can act on, say honestly how far it is met and keep it current.”
- Seven modules and a capstone that follow the work in order: the chain from law to test, reading obligations, scope, controls, several regimes, change and measurement.
- Four working tools with invented data: an Obligation Extractor that takes a text apart into actor, action, condition and timing and flags undefined standards, a Scope Screener that combines required, alternative and exempt tests with unknown facts, a Control Mapper that classifies cover as none, paper, single or multiple and finds orphan and overloaded controls, and a Change Comparer that shows tighter, looser, new and removed duties between two versions.
- Treats compliance as data: stable identifiers, a register, a crosswalk and honest cover classes, which a spreadsheet can hold as well as a specialist system.
- Honest about limits throughout: a map is not compliance, a link is a claim and not a proof, a coverage percentage can mislead, and tools that read the law need checking by a lawyer.
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Common questions
- Do I need to be a compliance specialist?
- No. The course starts from the chain of regulation, obligation, control, evidence and test, and builds up. It suits compliance staff, in-house counsel, legal operations, law students and lawyers who advise regulated businesses.
- Which regulation does it use?
- None that is real. It uses an invented ‘Marlen Digital Safety Act’ and invented businesses, so that you can practise the method without being misled about any country’s law. It tells you what to check in the law where you work.
- Do I need a specialist system?
- No. The method works with a well-kept spreadsheet that uses stable identifiers. The course explains what a system adds and where it can mislead.
- Do the tools read real laws?
- No. They take invented text and facts, and show the method. A real regulation needs a lawyer to read it, and the Obligation Extractor in particular saves typing and not reading. They run in your browser without sending anything anywhere.
- Does it cover AI in compliance?
- It covers how AI summaries and monitoring tools can help and mislead: they are prompts to read the source and controls that must be tested like any other. The course Checking Legal AI Tools goes further.
- How do I get the Certificate of Completion?
- Sign in, pass each module quiz and keep a course average of at least 75. The certificate is then issued and emailed to you automatically.
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