Economics in Legal Reasoning

Dr Péter Cserne is Reader in Law at Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK and an Extramural Fellow of Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Netherlands. He has held visiting positions at Columbia University, University of Oxford, University of Genoa and University of Toronto and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. A lawyer and economist by training, he has published widely on legal theory, economic analysis of law, and contracts. He is the founder and convener of MetLawEcon, an international academic network for research on the foundations of Law & Economics.Dr Fabrizio Esposito is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain and an Extramural Fellow at the Nova Law School, Lisbon, Portugal. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tel Aviv University, Israel, and defended his PhD thesis entitled Law and Economics United in Diversity at the European University Institute, Italy. He studies the relationship between economics, EU law, and legal theory with a particular focus on antitrust and consumer law. Fabrizio has joined Péter in the management of MetaLawEcon, an international academic network for research on the foundations of Law & Economics.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1. Foundations.- Chapter 2. What is legal reasoning about: a jurisprudential account.- Chapter 3. Economic approaches to legal reasoning: an overview.- Part 2. Economics and Legal Interpretations.- Chapter 4. Economics in judicial decision-making: four types of situations where judges may apply economics.- Chapter 5. Characterizing economic and legal approaches to the regulation of market interactions.- Part 3. Economics and Fact-finding.- Chapter 6. What is Forensic Economics?.- Chapter 7. Why do US judges reject antitrust experts?.- Part 4. New Perspectives.- Chapter 8.  Fostering the autonomy of legal reasoning through Legal Realism.- Chapter 9. Reverse engineering legal reasoning.