Moral heuristics

CR Sunstein - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2005 - cambridge.org
crossing the border into the moral domain changes moral thinking in two ways:(1) the facts
at hand become “anthropocentric” facts not easily open to revision, and (2) moral reasoning …

The law of group polarization

CR Sunstein - University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law …, 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
In a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who
compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own …

Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron

CR Sunstein, RH Thaler - The University of Chicago law review, 2003 - JSTOR
The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and
desirable for private and public institutions to influence behavior while also respecting …

Do human rights treaties make a difference

OA Hathaway - Yale lj, 2001 - HeinOnline
International lawyers for the most part assume that, as Louis Henkin memorably put it,"
almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all of their …

Chevron step zero

CR Sunstein - Va. L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
O VER twenty years after its birth, the US Supreme Court's decision in Chevron USA v.
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.'shows no sign of losing its influence. On the …

Nondelegation canons

CR Sunstein - U. chi. L. rev., 2000 - HeinOnline
Reports of the death of the nondelegation doctrine have been greatly exaggerated. Rather
than having been abandoned, the doctrine has merely been renamed and relocated. Its …

[PDF][PDF] The economic way of looking at life

GS Becker - 1993 - chicagounbound.uchicago.edu
Unlike Marxian analysis, the economic approach I refer to does not assume that individuals
are motivated solely by selfishness or material gain. It is a method of analysis, not an …

An economic approach to the law of evidence

RA Posner - Stan. L. Rev., 1998 - HeinOnline
In this article, Judge Richard A. Posner presents the first comprehensive economic analysis
of the law of evidence. The article is presented in three parts. First, Judge Posner proposes …

Private commercial law in the cotton industry: Creating cooperation through rules, norms, and institutions

L Bernstein - Michigan law review, 2001 - JSTOR
The cotton industry has almost entirely opted out of the public legal system, replacing it with
one of the oldest and most complex systems of private commercial law. 1 Most contracts for …

Beyond the precautionary principle

CR Sunstein - U. Pa. L. Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
BEYOND THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE plays a role as well. Most often, those who
use the precautionary principle fall genetic modi Page 1 BEYOND THE PRECAUTIONARY …