Behavioral Law and Economics (Relié)

In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body of studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from the assumptions of economic rationality. Behavioral Law and Economics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the field. The book surveys the entire body of psychological research that lies at the basis of behavioral analysis of law, and critically evaluates the core methodological questions of this area of research.
It discusses the fundamental normative questions stemming from the psychological findings on bounded rationality, and explores the implications for setting the law's goals and designing the means to attain them. It then provides a systematic and critical examination of the contributions of behavioral studies to all major fields of private and public law, as well as to the behavior of key players in the legal arena : litigants and judicial decision-makers.