Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports)
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Experts in law psychology and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law In recent decades the economists concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet in practical terms neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers in "fast and frugal heuristics" propose another approach: using certain formulations or general principles (heuristics) to help navigate in an environment that is not a well-ordered setting with an occasional disturbance as described in the language of rational choice but instead is fundamentally uncertain or characterized by an unmanageable degree of complexity. This is the intuition behind behavioral law and economics. In Heuristics and the Law experts in law psychology and economics explore the conceptual and practical power of the heuristics approach in law. They discuss legal theory; modeling and predicting the problems the law purports to solve; the process of making law in the legislature or in the courtroom; the application of existing law in the courts particularly regarding the law of evidence; and implementation of the law and the impact of law on behavior. Contributors Ronald J. Allen Hal R. Arkes Peter Ayton Susanne Baer Martin Beckenkamp Robert Cooter Leda Cosmides Mandeep K. Dhami Robert C. Ellickson Christoph Engel Richard A. Epstein Wolfgang Fikentscher Axel Flessner Robert H. Frank Bruno S. Frey Gerd Gigerenzer Paul W. Glimcher Daniel G. Goldstein Chris Guthrie Jonathan Haidt Reid Hastie Ralph Hertwig Eric J. Johnson Jonathan J. Koehler Russell Korobkin Stephanie Kurzenhuser Douglas A. Kysar Donald C. Langevoort Richard Lempert Stefan Magen Callia Piperides Jeffrey J. Rachlinski Clara Sattler de Sousa e Brito Joachim Schulz Victoria A. Shaffer Indra Spiecker genannt Dhmann John Tooby Gerhard Wagner Elke U. Weber Bernd Wittenbrink
