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Ordinary People And The Rationalization Of Wrongdoing, Janice Nadler May 2020

Ordinary People And The Rationalization Of Wrongdoing, Janice Nadler

Michigan Law Review

Review of Yuval Feldman's The Law of Good People: Challenging States' Ability to Regulate Human Behavior.


Nudge-Proof: Distributive Justice And The Ethics Of Nudging, Jessica L. Roberts Apr 2018

Nudge-Proof: Distributive Justice And The Ethics Of Nudging, Jessica L. Roberts

Michigan Law Review

A review of Cass R. Sunstein, The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science.


Tmi? Why The Optimal Architecture Of Disclosure Remains Tbd, Ryan Bubb Jan 2015

Tmi? Why The Optimal Architecture Of Disclosure Remains Tbd, Ryan Bubb

Michigan Law Review

We are inundated with disclosures in our daily lives. In one of the more evocative passages in their stimulating new book, More Than You Wanted to Know, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider imagine a day in the life of someone who actually reads all those disclosures (pp. 95–100). During a commercial on the morning news, the protagonist hits pause on the TiVo to catch the fine print that would otherwise fly by. Breakfast is a slog, requiring close reading of the toaster’s ominous label and the disheartening nutrition facts on the butter and jam. More of the same awaits …


Personalizing Default Rules And Disclosure With Big Data, Ariel Porat, Lior Jacob Strahilevitz Jan 2014

Personalizing Default Rules And Disclosure With Big Data, Ariel Porat, Lior Jacob Strahilevitz

Michigan Law Review

This Article provides the first comprehensive account of personalized default rules and personalized disclosure in the law. Under a personalized approach to default rules, individuals are assigned default terms in contracts or wills that are tailored to their own personalities, characteristics, and past behaviors. Similarly, disclosures by firms or the state can be tailored so that only information likely to be relevant to an individual is disclosed and information likely to be irrelevant to her is omitted. The Article explains how the rise of Big Data makes the effective personalization of default rules and disclosure far easier than it would …


Understanding Legal Compliance, V. Lee Hamilton May 1991

Understanding Legal Compliance, V. Lee Hamilton

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Why People Obey the Law by Tom R. Tyler


Beyond Candor, Scott Altman Nov 1990

Beyond Candor, Scott Altman

Michigan Law Review

In Part I, I consider whether judges might hold inaccurate beliefs that make them more candid and constrained. I suggest that even if theories of neutral decisionmaking are incomplete and inaccurate, a legal system in which judges hold these beliefs about their own behavior could have advantages. If many judges believe that they can, should, and do decide almost all cases by following the law, they might behave differently than they would if they held more accurate beliefs. They might behave so as to facilitate repression and denial, because their self-esteem depends on maintaining the belief that they decide as …


Of Literature, Politics, And Crime, Francis A. Allen May 1990

Of Literature, Politics, And Crime, Francis A. Allen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil


Understanding The Jury With The Help Of Social Science, Stephen Saltzburg Feb 1985

Understanding The Jury With The Help Of Social Science, Stephen Saltzburg

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Inside the Jury by Reid Hastie, Steven Penrod and Nancy Pennington


A Rational Approach To Responsibility, Christopher Slobogin Feb 1985

A Rational Approach To Responsibility, Christopher Slobogin

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Psychiatry: Rethinking the Relationship by Michael S. Moore


Born To Crime: The Genetic Causes Of Criminal Behavior, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Born To Crime: The Genetic Causes Of Criminal Behavior, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Born to Crime: The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior by Lawrence Taylor


Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Testimony--Jury Behavior, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Testimony--Jury Behavior, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Testimony--Jury Behavior by L. Craig Parker


The Uses Of Psychiatry In The Law: A Clinical View Of Forensic Psychiatry, Michigan Law Review Mar 1981

The Uses Of Psychiatry In The Law: A Clinical View Of Forensic Psychiatry, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Uses of Psychiatry in the Law: A Clinical View of Forensic Psychiatry by Walter Bromberg


On Tapp (And Levine), Michael J. Saks Mar 1979

On Tapp (And Levine), Michael J. Saks

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law, Justice, and the Individual in Society: Psychological and Legal Issues edited by June Louin Tapp and Felice J. Levine


Driver Behavior And Legal Sanctions: A Study Of Deterrence, Roger C. Cramton Jan 1969

Driver Behavior And Legal Sanctions: A Study Of Deterrence, Roger C. Cramton

Michigan Law Review

This Article considers first the general understanding of legal scholars and criminologists regarding the deterrent effect of legal sanctions; a second part summarizes current knowledge concerning the effects of legal sanctions in controlling driver behavior; and a concluding section evaluates briefly the methods available for the development of needed new knowledge.


Schur: Crimes Without Victims: Deviant Behavior And Public Policy, Mauris M. Platkin M.D. Jan 1966

Schur: Crimes Without Victims: Deviant Behavior And Public Policy, Mauris M. Platkin M.D.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Crimes Without Victims: Deviant Behavior and Public Policy by Edwin M. Schur