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We report on our test of the Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT (GPT) as a tool for generating evidence of the ordinary meaning of statutory terms, We explain why the most useful evidence for interpretation involves a distribution of replies rather than only what GPT regards as the single "best"...
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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Growing controversy surrounds the impact of labor unions on law enforcement behavior. Critics argue that unions impede organizational reform and insulate officers from discipline for misconduct. Yet collective bargaining tends to increase wages, which could improve officer behavior. We provide...
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Judges are human beings. Is their behavior therefore subject to the same effects that psychology and behavioral economics have documented for convenience samples, like university students? Does that fact that they decide on behalf of third parties moderate their behavior? In which ways does the...
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Legal research is a repeat offender - in the best sense of the term - when it comes to making use of empirical and experimental methods borrowed from other disciplines. We anticipate that the field's response to developments in eye-tracking research will be no different. Our aim is to aid legal...
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Der Wolf hat Kreide gefressen. Mit sanfter Stimme wirbt er um die Kooperation der Produzenten. Er appelliert an ihre Verantwortung. Regulierung kann er sich bestenfalls konsensual vorstellen. Aber er trägt dabei keinen Schafspelz. Im Gegenteil droht er ganz unverhohlen mit so schweren...
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Sphinxen und Centauren, Zombies und Vampire, Nixen und Melusinen - Zwischenwesen haben die Menschen seit alters fasziniert. Auch Wissenschaftler verspüren diesen Reiz und suchen, gefestigten Distinktionen einen Zwischenboden einzuziehen. So ist es auch der Unterscheidung von Staat und Markt...
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Die Juristen haben eine gespaltene Beziehung zu Treu und Glauben. Es soll gerecht zugehen. Deshalb sollen treuwidrige Entscheidungen vermieden werden. Aber für den offenen Rückgriff auf normative Wertungen haben Juristen keine spezifische professionelle Kompetenz. Dieser Beitrag macht aus der...
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Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
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