The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues. These studies have challenged the application of the rational-choice model to legal analysis and introduced a more accurate and empirically grounded model of human behavior. This integration of economics, psychology, and law is breaking exciting new ground in legal theory and the social sciences, shedding a new light on age-old legal questions as well as cutting edge policy issues.

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its 29 chapters organized in four parts. The first part provides a general overview of behavioral economics. The second part comprises four chapters introducing and criticizing the contribution of behavioral economics to legal theory. The third part discusses specific behavioral phenomena, their ramifications for legal policymaking, and their reflection in extant law. Finally, the fourth part analyzes the contribution of behavioral economics to fifteen legal spheres ranging from core doctrinal areas such as contracts, torts and property to areas such as taxation and antitrust policy.

在过去的二十年里，对法律和法律相关问题的行为研究激增。这些研究对理性选择模型在法律分析中的应用提出了挑战，并引入了一个更为准确和经验性的人类行为模型。这种经济学、心理学和法学的结合正在法律理论和社会科学领域开辟令人兴奋的新天地，为古老的法律问题以及前沿政策问题提供了新的思路。
《牛津行为经济学和法学手册》汇集了法学、心理学和经济学领域的顶尖学者，对这一研究领域进行了最新和全面的分析，包括其优势和局限性以及对其未来发展的预测。它的29章分为四个部分。第一部分是行为经济学的概述。第二部分包括四章，介绍和批判行为经济学对法学理论的贡献。第三部分讨论了具体的行为现象，它们对法律决策的影响，以及它们在现存法律中的反映。最后，第四部分分析了行为经济学对15个法律领域的贡献，从合同、侵权和财产等核心理论领域到税收和反垄断政策等领域。