Norms and the law / edited by John N. Drobak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drobak, John N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Social aspects.

Law.

Social norms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

Norms & the Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book contains perspectives of world-renowned scholars from the fields of law, economics, and political science about the relationship between law and norms. The authors take different approaches by using a wide variety of perspectives from law, legal history, neoclassical economics, new institutional economics, game theory, political science, cognitive science, and philosophy. The essays examine the relationship between norms and the law in four different contexts. Part One consists of essays that use the perspectives of cognitive science and behavioral economics to analyze norms that influence the law. In Part Two, the authors use three different types of common property to examine cooperative norms. Part Three contains essays that deal with the constraints imposed by norms on the judiciary. Finally, Part Four examines the influence formal law has on norms.

Contents:

Social norms and other-regarding preferences / Lynn A. Stout

Damages, norms, and punishment / Cass R. Sunstein

Cognitive science and the study of the "rules of the game" in a world of uncertainty / Douglass C. North

Norms of the household /

Robert C. Ellickson

.commons / Lawrence Lessig

How norms help reduce the tragedy of the commons : a multi-layer framework for analyzing field experiments / Juan-Camilo C©Łrdenas and Elinor Ostrom

Judging the judges : some remarks on the way judges think and the way judges act / Lawrence M. Friedman

Judicial independence in a democracy : institutionalizing judicial restraint / John Ferejohn and Larry D. Kramer

Black judges and ascriptive group identification / Kathryn Abrams

Judicial norms : a judge's perspectives / Harry T. Edwards

Normative evaluation and legal analogues / Amartya Sen.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511617720

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