Rachlinski
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Legal scholar of behavioral law, litigation, and judicial decision-making
behavioral law and economicsjudicial behaviorlitigation
Official Source Note
Cornell Law School lists Rachlinski on its faculty directory. His scholarship is widely associated with behavioral law, judicial decision-making, litigation behavior, and the empirical study of legal process.
Rachlinski is included because his work connects prospect theory, framing, heuristics, and bias to concrete legal institutions, especially settlement, judging, courts, and litigation incentives.
Source: Cornell Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Rachlinski connects behavioral law and economics to courts: settlement behavior, judge and jury decision-making, and the institutional question of whether legal process can reduce or amplify bias.
Representative Contributions
- Gains, Losses, and the Psychology of Litigation (1996)
- Heuristics and Biases in the Courts (with Chris Guthrie and Andrew Wistrich)
- Judging the Judiciary by the Numbers
Works Included Here
1996
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