Heuristics and the law /

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Meeting name:Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law (2004 : Berlin, Germany)
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press, c2006.
Description:xiv, 485 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Dahlem workshop reports
Dahlem workshop reports.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6110183
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Other authors / contributors:Gigerenzer, Gerd.
Engel, Christoph, 1956-
Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943-
ISBN:0262072750 (alk. paper)
9780262072755
Notes:"Report of the 94th Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law, Berlin, June 6-11, 2004"--P. ii.
Series from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Dahlem Workshops
  • List of Participants
  • Preface
  • 1. Law and Heuristics: An Interdisciplinary Venture
  • 2. Heuristics
  • 3. The Problems with Heuristics for Law
  • 4. Social Dilemmas Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective
  • 5. Heuristics inside the Firm: Perspectives from Behavioral Law and Economics
  • 6. Group Report: Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?
  • 7. The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules
  • 8. Bottom-up versus Top-down Lawmaking
  • 9. Evolutionary Psychology, Moral Heuristics, and the Law
  • 10. The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Heuristics That Influence Lawmaking
  • 11. Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Making Law?
  • 12. Heuristics for Applying Laws to Facts
  • 13. Heuristics in Procedural Law
  • 14. Train Our Jurors
  • 15. Rules of Evidence as Heuristics-Heuristics as Rules of Evidence
  • 16. Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Litigation?
  • 17. Adapt or Optimize? The Psychology and Economics of Rules of Evidence
  • 18. Do Legal Rules Rule Behavior?
  • 19. Should We Use Decision Aids or Gut Feelings?
  • 20. Law, Information, and Choice: Capitalizing on Heuristic Habits of Thought
  • 21. Group Report: How Do Heuristics Mediate the Impact of Law on Behavior?
  • Author Index
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index