Jolls
Christine Jolls
Legal scholar of behavioral law and economics, employment law, and regulation
Official Source Note
Yale Law School lists Jolls as a member of its faculty. Her scholarship is central to behavioral law and economics, including work on behavioral assumptions, workplace regulation, antidiscrimination law, and debiasing through legal design.
Jolls is included because A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics, coauthored with Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, gives the field a canonical statement of bounded rationality, bounded willpower, and bounded self-interest as legally relevant departures from the rational-actor model.
Source: Yale Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Jolls anchors the archive's behavioral-law layer by showing how legal analysis can remain economically disciplined while using more realistic assumptions about human behavior.
Representative Contributions
- A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics (with Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, 1998)
- Debiasing through Law (with Cass Sunstein, 2006)
- Behavioral Law and Economics
Works Included Here
1998
Advanced
A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics
Christine Jolls, Cass R. Sunstein, and Richard H. Thaler
Stanford Law Review