" American courts have no intelligible, generally accepted, and consistently applied theory of
statutory interpretation." 1 This Hart and Sacks lament is frequently quoted but misleading. 2 …

A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a dominant tendency to rely on a rule's letter
over its spirit when deciding which behaviors violate the rule. This tendency varied markedly …

Rules serve many important functions in society. One such function is to codify, and make
public and enforceable, a society's desired prescriptions and proscriptions. This codification …

The experimental philosophy of law is a recent movement that aims to inform traditional
debates in jurisprudence by conducting empirical research. This paper introduces and …

In the early years of experimental philosophy, a number of studies seemed to suggest that
people's philosophical intuitions were unstable. Some studies seemed to suggest that …

Governments have increasingly adopted laws restricting the activities of international non-
governmental organizations INGOs within their borders. Such laws are often intended to …

In a series of ten preregistered experiments (N= 2043), we investigate the effect of outcome
valence on judgments of probability, negligence, and culpability–a phenomenon sometimes …

What should judges do when faced with immoral laws? Should they apply them without
exception, since “the law is the law?” Or can exceptions be made for grossly immoral laws …

We examined whether the enforcement of phantom rules—frequently broken and rarely
enforced codified rules—varies by the race of the rule breaker. First, we analyzed whether …

The reasonable person standard is of great importance to US criminal and tort law.
According to the law, whether or not an agent acted reasonably does not depend on …