This Article introduces the concept of nudge — low cost behaviorally informed modes of regulation that influence peoples' decisions without limiting their choice set — into the behavioural analysis of international law. The Article sketches out the pathways through which nudges might...

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 the assumptions of economic rationality. While these insights were initially perceived as antithetical to standard...

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 the assumptions of economic rationality. While the findings on bounded rationality and heuristics and biases were...

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 shows how behavioral insights were incorporated into the political debate regarding the legal response to the...

Economic analysis has had a powerful influence on legal theory and policymaking. Based on the premise that people are rational maximizers of their own utility, economic analysis has a fairly successful record in correctly predicting human behavior in all spheres of life. This success is...

This is a draft entry for the Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. It provides a bird's-eye view of behavioral economics, its impact on legal theory and policy, its implications, and the critique leveled against it