The Law of Good People - Challenging States' Ability to Regulate Human Behavior

Informationen zum Autor Yuval Feldman is the Mori Lazarof Professor of Legal Research at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley (2004). His research focuses on compliance, ethical decision-making, and empirical legal studies. He has co-authored more than fifty papers and has won more than twenty research grants and fellowships, including one at the Safra Lab at Harvard Law School. Feldman is a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he advises various governmental bodies on the usage of behavioral sciences, in areas related to regulatory design, corruption and enforcement. In 2016 he was elected to the Israel Young Academy. Klappentext This book argues that overcoming people's inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Behavioral ethics and the meaning of good people for legal enforcement; 3. Revisiting traditional enforcement interventions; 4. Revisiting non-formal enforcement interventions; 5. The role of social norms in legal compliance and enforcement; 6. Are all people equally good?; 7. Pluralistic account of the law: the multiple effects of law on behavior; 8. Enforcement dilemmas and behavioral trade-offs; 9. The corruption of 'good people'; 10. Discrimination by 'good' employers; 11. Summary and conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Yuval Feldman, Yuval (Bar-Ilan University Feldman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2019
• EAN: 9781316502082
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50208-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / International, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, Ethics & moral philosophy, Public International Law, Ethics and moral philosophy, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general