A Preface to Neoclassical Legal Thought

82 Preface LEGAL JUDGMENT AS INFORMATION INTEGRATION

Legal judgments and decisions require valuation and integration of stimulus information. Such information processing is a province of psychological science and many psychologists have taken up legal issues to seek social usefulness. Some issues in legal psychology obey the same mathematical laws of information integration established in other areas of human psychology. This is not surprising; ...

Infallibility in Bentham’s Political and Legal Thought

The Impact of Legal Schools of Thought

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the e ects of legal schools of thought on appellate jurisprudence and criminal sentencing decisions. We construct measures of the in uence of a major school of conservative legal thought Law and Economics using the linguistic features of judicial opinions and attendance at a law-and-economics training program. We examine the impact of law-and-econo...

PREFACE

An introduction to legal thought: four approaches to law and to the allocation of body parts.