Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Behavioral economics : an overview -- Heuristics and biases / Jonathan Baron -- Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order / Simon G?chter -- Moral judgment / Jonathan Baron -- Behavioral economics and the law : an overview and critique -- The importance of behavioral law / Thomas S. Ulen -- Behavioral law and economics : empirical methods / Christoph Engel -- Biasing, debiasing, and the law / Daniel Pi, Francesco Parisi, and Barbara Luppi -- Alternative bles / Gregory Mitchell -- Behavioral economics and the law : specific behavioral phenomena -- Law and prosocial behavior / Lynn A. Stout -- Behavioral ethics meets behavioral law and economics / Yuval Feldman -- Law, moral attitudes, and behavioral change / Kenworthey Bilz and Janice Nadler -- Law's loss aversion / Eyal Zamir -- Wrestling with the endowment effect, or how to do law and economics without the coase theorem / Russell Korobkin -- Probability errors : over-optimism, ambiguity aversion, and the certainty effect / Sean Hannon Williams -- The hindsight bias and the law in hindsight / Doron Teichman -- Behavioral economics : legal applications -- Behavioral law and economics of property law : achievements and challenges / Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir -- The behavioral economics of tort law / Yoed Halbersberg and Ehud Guttel -- Behavioral economics and contract law / Melvin A. Eisenberg -- Consumer transactions / Oren Bar-Gill -- Behavioral economics and insurance law : the importance of equilibrium analysis / Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman -- The end of contractarianism? : behavioral economics and the law of corporations / Kent Greenfield -- The market, the firm, and behavioral antitrust / Avishalom Tor -- Behavioral analysis of criminal law : a survey / Alon Harel -- Behavioral economics and the law : tax / Edward J. McCaffery -- Litigation and settlement / Jennifer K. Robbennolt -- Behavioral economics and plea bargaining / Russell Covey -- Judicial decisionmaking : a behavioral perspective / Doron Teichman and Eyal Zamir -- Evidence law / Fredrick E. Vars -- Nudges.gov : behaviorally informed regulation / Cass R. Sunstein -- Environmental law / Adrian Kuenzler and Douglas Kysar.