In the 1970s law and economics was emerging as an innovative and exciting interdisciplinary field. The innovation was to apply economics not just to laws that affected economic activity but to all aspects of legal systems. I termed this the ‘new law and economics’ in a research review commissioned by the then Social Science Research Council (SSRC), versions of which were published in the Journal of Law & Society (1980) and by the CSLS as The New Law and Economics (1982) … (more)
[Cento Veljanovski, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, 20 March 2024]
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