Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "evolutionary analysis in law"

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    • Endowment Effects in Chimpanzees 
      Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Lambeth, Susan P.; Mareno, Mary Catherine; Richardson, Amanda S.; Schapiro, Steven (Current Biology, 2007)
      Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. The much-investigated variety of apparent deviations from rational choice predictions provides a promising arena for the merger of economics ...
    • The Evolution of Irrationality 
      Jones, Owen D. (Jurimetrics, 2001)
      The place of the rational actor model in the analysis of individual and social behavior relevant to law remains unresolved. In recent years, scholars have sought frameworks to explain: a) disjunctions between seemingly ...
    • Evolutionary Analysis in Law 
      Jones, Owen D. (North Carolina Law Review, 1997)
      For contemporary biologists, behavior - like physical form - evolves. Although evolutionary processes do not dictate behavior in any inflexible sense, they nonetheless contribute significantly to the prevalence of various ...
    • Intuitions of Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Kurzban, Robert (University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)
      Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. ...
    • Law and Behavioral Biology 
      Jones, Owen D.; Goldsmith, Timothy H. (Columbia Law Review, 2005)
      Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on sound understandings of the multiple causes of human behavior. ...
    • Law and Biology: Toward an Integrated Model of Human Behavior 
      Jones, Owen D. (Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1997)
      This Article explores ways in which social science perspectives on behavior can be combined with life science perspectives on behavior to the advantage of law. It emphasizes both values of and techniques for integration, ...
    • Law and the Biology of Rape 
      Jones, Owen D. (Hastings Women's Law Journal, 2000)
      This Article serves as a sequel to a previous Article: Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape: Toward Explanation and Prevention, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 827 (1999). Part I briefly considers the threshold question: why consider the ...
    • Law, Evolution, and the Brain: Applications and Open Questions 
      Jones, Owen D. (2004)
      This essay discusses several issues at the intersection of law and brain science. If focuses principally on ways in which an improved understanding of how evolutionary processes affect brain function and human behavior may ...
    • Proprioception, Non-Law, and Biolegal History 
      Jones, Owen D. (Florida Law Review, 2001)
      This Article explores several advantages of incorporating into law various insights from behavioral biology about how and why the brain works as it does. In particular, the Article explores the ways in which those insights ...
    • Realities of Rape: Of Science and Politics, Causes and Meanings 
      Jones, Owen D. (Cornell Law Review, 2001)
      This review essay discusses the book A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer (MIT Press, 2000). The essay builds on work previously appearing in Owen D. Jones, ...