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Homo Juridicus: Correcting Law's Behavioural Illiteracy

Description du projet

Augmenter l’efficacité de la loi

Les recherches juridiques ont prouvé que les sanctions strictes ne dissuadent pas les actions illégales. Les interventions favorisant un changement comportemental chez les détenus s’avèrent plus efficaces, mais la nouvelle législation s’est accompagnée de peines plus sévères. En effet, les systèmes légaux ne reconnaissent pas le rôle central du comportement et n’ont pas élaboré de théorie juridique du comportement. Le projet HomoJuridicus, financé par l’UE, examinera la manière dont les lois influencent l’illégalité. Il analysera les erreurs et les préjugés influençant les perceptions des avocats et mettra en place une jurisprudence comportementale visant à augmenter l’efficacité de la loi dans le cadre de l’amélioration du comportement.

Objectif

Recent scientific research has revolutionised our understanding of how law can reduce misconduct. It shows that legal incentives are often flawed, and that strict punishment alone cannot deter misbehaviour. It offers a new approach for law to address wrongdoing, incorporating social norms and morals, tapping into unconscious cognition, and applying practical and technical interventions that obstruct misconduct. Yet, these fundamental insights continue to be ignored, and with every new disaster, scandal or major risk, we produce more rules with stronger punishment, without successfully addressing the true behavioural mechanisms at fault. The core problem is that the field of law has not made conduct central, nor produced a behavioural legal theory to guide these scientific insights into legal research, education and practice. As a result, legal rules to code conduct are made and operated by lawyers that are behaviourally illiterate. The proposed research will instigate the necessary behavioural revolution in the field of law. To do so, it will develop a behavioural jurisprudence through three steps. First, it will provide a comprehensive synthesis of the scientific insights about how legal rules affect misconduct. Second, it will empirically analyse flaws and biases in the behavioural assumptions of lawyers tasked with addressing misconduct. This will produce a fundamental critique of existing legal thinking, to be summarized in the Homo Juridicus, shorthand for the flawed legal model of human conduct just like behavioural economics helped produce the Homo Economicus to show the fallacies in traditional economic thinking. Third, the research will synthesize this into a behavioural jurisprudence offering a normative framework that makes successful internalization of positive conduct central in the field of law, and that guides legal research and education to incorporate the social science to enhance the effectiveness of law to improve behaviour.

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ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

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Appel à propositions

(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) ERC-2018-COG

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Institution d’accueil

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 999 405,00
Coût total
€ 1 999 405,00

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