This issue features Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law (Springer, 2022), a book recently published by a CMEL researcher.
Behavioral public choice economics is a nascent field of study that revitalizes
the well-established field of public choice economics with the findings of
behavioral economics, political psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to
advance our knowledge about administrative regulation, constitutional design,
democratic lawmaking, elections, and judicial decision-making.
In
his new book Behavioral Public Choice
Economics and the Law (Springer, 2022), the first book on the
subject, CMEL’s Deputy Director Dr Eric C. Ip lucidly illustrates how public
officials, lawmakers, and judges, as ordinary, boundedly rational, human
beings, fall prey to their own biases and heuristics. Dr Ip explains how the
insights of behavioral public choice economics, among other things, can
fruitfully enhance our understanding of cognitive constraints on legal and
policy responses to public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, which tend
to be complex and require the delicate balancing of competing interests such as
economic activity, human rights, mental health, and physical health. His book,
additionally, demonstrates how constitutions and judicial doctrines can be
structured to mitigate the cognitive shortcomings of technocrats and other
public decision-makers.
Other highlights:
1. Articles
- "Civil
Liabilities of Fertility Fraud: Focusing on the Decision from the Court of
Appeals of Indiana in the United States"
- "How
Hong Kong Won Its 150-year Struggle Against Malaria"
- "Technological
Solutions to Loneliness—Are they enough?"
- "Zoonoses
and Animal Culling: The Need for One Health Policy"
2. Upcoming Events
- Preservation
of Dignity in the Terminally Ill
- Ethical and
Legal Complexities in Genomic Data Sharing in Consortia: Reflections from
Asia, Africa, and Europe
- The
Bioethics of Loneliness
3. Recording
·
"MEDIATION
IN HONG KONG": Focus on Medical and Dental Disputes
4. Media/ Legal Updates
- Manslaughter
of Terminally-ill Wife
- Wristbands
for Monitoring Emotions
- Invalidating
COVID-19 Vaccination Medical Exemption Certificates
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