Lawmaking through legislation : an introduction -- Optimal specificity of laws : rules versus standards -- Optimal timing of legal intervention : lawmaking under uncertainty -- Optimal territorial scope of laws : subsidiarity and legal harmonization -- Lawmaking through adjudication : an...

Human behavior is influenced both by internal norms or values (what people think is just behavior) and exogenous restrictions including legal sanctions. In the paper we study the interaction between these legal and extralegal forces and highlight the possibility of a countervailing effect of...