In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

This Article presents the first comprehensive analysis of the contribution of behavioral
science to the legal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the descriptive level, the Article …

In a perfectly competitive market, the law should simply give effect to the parties' agreements
(assuming, that is, that efficiency is all we care about). Real-world markets and real people …

Higher courts sometimes assess the constitutionality of law by working through a concrete
case, other times by reasoning about the underlying question in a more abstract way. Prior …

Campaigns aiming to encourage people to reduce their energy consumption frequently
make three well-intentioned but inadvertent mistakes in their communications strategies …

Scandals are pervasive in many areas of society. We propose a characterization of scandals
that explicitly considers their potential benefits to transgressors. Although scandals are …

Recent literature in experimental philosophy has postulated the existence of the
abstract/concrete paradox (ACP): the tendency to activate inconsistent intuitions (and …

This research explores the hypothesis that third‐party decision makers will be less likely to
switch from a suboptimal default payoff to a more efficient alternative one when payoff …

The COVID-19 crisis has raised a dire dilemma among medical professionals. Faced with a
shortage of critical equipment and supplies, how do hospital administrators and physicians …

Numerous studies showed that people respond more generously to individual identified
victims than to equivalent statistical victims, which is referred to as the “identifiable victim …