Norms and the Law

Introduction John N. Drobak; Part I. Rationality and Norms: 1. Social norms and other-regarding preferences Lynn A. Stout; 2. Damages, norms, and punishment Cass R. Sunstein; 3. Cognitive science and the study of the 'rules of the game' in a world of uncertainty Douglass C. North; Part II. Norms of the Commons: 4. Norms of the household Robert C. Ellickson; 5. Commons Lawrence Lessig; 6. How norms help reduce the tragedy of the commons: a multi-layer framework for analyzing field experiments Juan-Camilo Cárdenas and Elinor Ostrom; Part III. Judicial Norms: 7. Judging the judges: some remarks on the way judges think and the way judges act Lawrence M. Friedman; 8. Judicial independence in a democracy: institutionalizing judicial restraint John Ferejohn and Larry D. Kramer; 9. Black judges and ascriptive group identity Kathryn Abrams; 10. Judicial norms: a judge's perspectives Harry T. Edwards; Part IV. The Influence of Law on Norms: 11. Normative evaluation and legal analogues Amartya Sen; References; Index.