This is a past event
Co-hosted by University of Aberdeen School of Law, Université catholique de Louvain, Nova Law School and MetaLawEcon
Discussants:
Prof. Brian H. Bix (University of Minnesota)
Prof. Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School
Prof. Anne-Lise Sibony (Université catholique de Louvain)
How can legal and economic thinking relate meaningfully to each other?
How do judges use economics to interpret the law, establish facts, manage their caseload?
What do economists think about legal reasoning?
This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the roles that economic insights play and could play in legal reasoning. Traditionally, economists have been first and foremost interested in the economic effects of judicial decisions and the legal process. But what if judges are not the objects but the agents of economic analysis? While there has been occasional judicial reflection on the role of “economists on the bench”, this is the first book-length study looking at the role played by economics in legal reasoning. Such a systematic study has a twofold goal. First, it contributes to the jurisprudential self-consciousness of Law and Economics scholars, thereby improving the chances for economic arguments to have an impact on important legal decisions. Second, it suggests a step change in how economics contributes to public discourse about adjudication.
The book is available in print and as an e-book here.
Dr Péter Cserne is Reader in Law at Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK and an Extramural Fellow of Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Netherlands.
Dr Fabrizio Esposito is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain and an Extramural Fellow at the Nova Law School, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- University of Aberdeen, School of Law
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