In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

The emerging movement within legal scholarship known as behavioral law and economics
seeks to replace the perfect rationality assumption found in law and economics with an …

Many topics within economics relate to law. A large body of work in public economics, for
instance, examines the effects of legally mandated government programs such as disability …

The last decade has seen an outpouring of work in “behavioral law and economics;” in the
last few years, the outpouring has become a flood. 1 This should not be surprising. Cognitive …

We are at the beginning of behavioral law and economics. We now see only dimly the
outlines of the elaborate theory of decision making that is to come. We are like the …

Legal scholars have recently been extolling the explanatory potential of behavioral law and
economics. This new scholarship seeks to marry insights from traditional microeconomics …

This exciting volume marks the birth of a new field--a field that studies law with reference to
an accurate, rather than a crude, understanding of human behavior. Behavioral Law and …

The field of behavioral economics has contributed greatly to our understanding of human
decision making by refining neoclassical assumptions and developing models that account …

Objections to the rational actor model in law and economics are almost as old as the field
itself. Early skeptics about the economic analysis of law were quick to marshal arguments …

Over the past decade, psychological research has enjoyed a rapidly expanding influence on
legal scholarship. This expansion has established a new field-" Behavioral Law and …