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by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

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82 pages, Print on Demand (Paperback)

Published September 3, 2011

About the author

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan studies the role of moral judgment in legal decision-making. She uses experimental methods from psychology and behavioral economics to ask how people draw on their moral intuitions to motivate or inform legal choices. Her research focuses in particular on private contracts and negotiations. She has argued that most people think that breaking a promise is immoral, and that a breach of contract is a kind of broken promise. People are uncomfortable with the prospect of breaking a promise, and resistant to profiting from what they perceive to be a moral violation. This kind of finding has implications for a variety of promissory transactions, from mortgage contracts to commercial agreements to prenups. The broad goal of her scholarship is to use behavioral research to shed light on how people interpret the law, how they conceive of their rights and obligations, and how social and moral norms interact with the applicable legal rules.