Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
There is now a large body of empirical work that calls into question the traditional legal assumptions about how law shapes behavior.
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Designing to Avoid “Ordinary Unethicality”: A Q&A with Yuval Feldman
How can we design laws in ways that don’t invite unethical behavior from ordinary people?
Improving the Summons Process in New York City
The current system of court summons strains everyone involved. There’s another way to approach the problem.
Older Stories
Cass Sunstein: Picking vs. Choosing
I was much influenced by a brilliant, pathbreaking paper, “Picking and Choosing,” by Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Sidney Morgenbesser.
Stereotype Threat in Police Encounters: Implications for Miscarriages of Justice
Data from research I recently conducted with Bette Bottoms and Phillip Goff, published in Law and Human Behavior, suggest that the psychological experience of such police encounters is very different for Black as compared to White citizens.
The Edge of Belief: Maria Konnikova on the Art of the Con
Her journey into the world of confidence men and women takes the reader to the edge of reality, belief, and trust.