Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-290) and index.
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.
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Norms influence how people act as much as formal law. This text examines the relationship between norms and the law in four different contexts - behavioral science, common property, the judiciary, and philosophy.