Norms and the law / edited by John N. Drobak.

Other author Drobak, John N.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Descriptionix, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Social norms and other-regarding preferences / Lynn A. Stout -- Damages, norms, and punishment / Cass R. Sunstein -- Cognitive science and the study of the "rules of the game" in a world of uncertainty / Douglass C. North -- Norms of the household / -- Robert C. Ellickson -- .commons / Lawrence Lessig -- How norms help reduce the tragedy of the commons : a multi-layer framework for analyzing field experiments / Juan-Camilo Cárdenas and Elinor Ostrom -- Judging the judges : some remarks on the way judges think and the way judges act / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Judicial independence in a democracy : institutionalizing judicial restraint / John Ferejohn and Larry D. Kramer -- Black judges and ascriptive group identification / Kathryn Abrams -- Judicial norms : a judge's perspectives / Harry T. Edwards -- Normative evaluation and legal analogues / Amartya Sen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-290) and index.
LCCN 2006001220
ISBN0521862256 (hardback)
ISBN0521680794 (pbk.)
ISBN9780521862257
ISBN9780521680790