The dynamics of the legal system

被引：10

作者：

Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe ^{[1
]}

Deffains, Bruno ^{[2
,3
]}

Lovat, Bruno ^{[4
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Tinbergen Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[2] Univ Paris 2 Pantheon Assas, Lab Econ Droit, Paris, France

[3] European Business Sch, Wiesbaden, Germany

[4] CNRS, BETA, F-75700 Paris, France

[5] Univ Nancy 2, F-54001 Nancy, France

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION | 2011年 / 79卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

Incompleteness of law; Litigation; Legislation; Adjudication; Judge-made law; COMMON-LAW; MEDICAL MALPRACTICE; LITIGATION; SETTLEMENT; EVOLUTION; ARBITRATION; SELECTION; DISPUTES; TRIAL;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jebo.2011.02.001

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We present a dynamic model of noncontractual litigation in which the parties' decision whether to litigate depends on information produced by courts and, vice versa, the courts' involvement in the lawmaking process depends on the cases proposed by the parties. Thereby, we integrate in one model the two main functions of the judiciary (adjudication and lawmaking) and study their interplay. Our model offers a dynamic, cyclical perspective on the evolution of the legal system over time and sheds new light on the causes for high litigation rates and on judge-made law versus statutes. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：95 / 107

页数：13