Legal norms are often seen as a means to regulate individuals when self-interest does not
produce the desired behavior as measured by efficiency and fairness. 1 As Oliver Wendell …

Due to a variety of circumstances, lawmakers occasionally create laws whose aims are
perceived as outright unjust by the majority of the people. In other situations, the law may …

Abstract Evolutionary Law and Economics explains how law evolves in possibly path
dependent ways. The theory therefore seems apt to help comparative legal theory in …

Positive economic theories of the law nearly by definition explain legal change. 1 If change
is not treated as continuous rather than as a unique event, and the methodology is …

There are some circumstances in which social norms counteract legal norms, reduce their
effect and even produce results that are opposite to those intended by the lawmaker. In this …

P legal OSITIVE change. economic1 If change theories is not of treated the law nearly by
definition explain as continuous rather than as a unique event, and the methodology is …