Law and Social Economics

Part I. Foundations

1. Toward a Contractarian Theory of Law
Claire Finkelstein

2. Environmental Ethics, Economics, and Property Law
Steven McMullen, Daniel Molling

3. Individual Rights, Economic Transactions, and Recognition: A Legal Approach to Social Economics
Stefano Solari

4. Institutionalist Method and Forensic Proof
Robert M. LaJeunesse

5. Retributivist Justice and Dignity: Finding a Role for Economics in Criminal Justice
Mark D. White

Part II. Applications

6. Female Genital Mutilation and the Law: A Qualitative Case Study
Regina Gemignani, Quentin Wodon

7. An Unexamined Oxymoron: Trust but Verify
David George

8. On the Question of Court Activism and Economic Interests in Nineteenth-Century Married Women’s Property Law
Daniel MacDonald

9. Divergent Outcomes of Land Rights Claims of Indigenous Peoples in the United States
Wayne Edwards

10. Punitive (and) Pain-and-Suffering Damages in Brazil
Osny Silva Filho

Keywords: Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Law, general