Wednesday, July 15, 2015
CCR Interview with Valerie Hans
Corporate Crime Reporter has an interview with Cornell tortsprof Valerie Hans, who discusses the book she and Jennifer Robbennolt are writing, The Psychology of Tort Law. A sample:
How does looking at tort law from a psychology lens differ from looking at it through an economic lens?
“We look at human beings as they actually are, not as hypothetical economic humans,” Hans told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. “We are human. We have foibles. We take short cuts in our decision making. We rely on heuristics. We pay more attention to the here and now as opposed to what might happen in the future. We commingle things that should be separate. We are decent decision makers but we are fallible decision makers. Psychology brings to tort law the ways in which actual real world decision making affects the operation of tort law.”
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/2015/07/ccr-interview-with-valerie-hans.html