In many Codes of Conduct for lawyers around the globe, the duty of the lawyer to serve the interests of his client, and not his own interest, is incorporated.This paper analyzes this duty from various perspectives. Theoretical Law and Economics literature views the client-lawyer relationship as...

The fundamental purpose of a tort trial is to allocate responsibility. However, attributing fault is difficult, and decades of research in psychology have shown that human beings are prone to make systematic errors in performing this task. What can be done about this? The United States and...

In this paper, we study judicial attitudes and decision-making in mass litigation in the light of social sciences, namely rational choice theory and behavioural economics. These insights offer complementary views that are relevant in times where judges have been assigned increased...