Recently, “The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence,” a new entry in the “Cambridge Law Handbooks” series, has been published. It was edited by Kevin Tobia and contains no fewer than 38 chapters. See below for the table of contents.
Part 1 – Foundations and Theory
- Kevin Tobia: “Introduction”
- Barbara A. Spellman, Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Janice Nadler, and Tess Wilkinson-Ryan: “Psychology and Jurisprudence Across the Curriculum”
- John Mikhail: “Holmes, Legal Realism, and Experimental Jurisprudence”
- Frederick Schauer: “The Empirical Component of Analytic Jurisprudence”
- Felipe Jiménez: “The Limits of Experimental Jurisprudence”
- Jonathan Lewis: “Competing Conceptual Inferences and the Limits of Experimental Jurisprudence”
- Joseph Avery, Alissa del Riego, and Patricia Sánchez Abril: “The Contours of Bias in Experimental Jurisprudence”
- Christoph Bublitz: “Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning – A View from German Criminal Law”
- Bert I. Huang: “Law and Morality”
- Brian Sheppard: “Legal Constraint”
Part 2 – Introductions
- Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida, Noel Struchiner, and Ivar Hannikainen: “Rules”
- James A. Macleod: “Surveys and Experiments in Statutory Interpretation”
- Thomas R. Lee and Stephen C. Mouritsen: “Corpus Linguistics and Armchair Jurisprudence”
- Meirav Furth-Matzkin: “Using Experiments to Inform the Regulation of Consumer Contracts”
- Doron Dorfman: “Experimental Jurisprudence of Health and Disability Law”
- Jessica Bregant, Jennifer K. Robbennolt, and Verity Winship: “Studying Public Perceptions of Settlement”
- Benedikt Pirker, Izabela Skoczeń, and Veronika Fikfak: “Experimental Jurisprudence in International Law”
- Heidi H. Liu: “The Law and Psychology of Gender Stereotyping”
- Christian Mott: “The Experimental Jurisprudence of Persistence through Time”
- Lukas Holste and Holger Spamann: “Experimental Investigations of Judicial Decision-Making”
- Christoph Engel and Rima-Maria Rahal: “Eye-Tracking as a Method for Legal Research”
- Jessica Bregant: “Intuitive Jurisprudence – What Experimental Jurisprudence Can Learn from Developmental Science”
Part 3 – Applications
- Corey H. Allen, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Jason Shepard, and Eyal Aharoni: “Moral Judgments about Retributive Vigilantism”
- Karolina M. Prochownik, Romy D. Feiertag, Joachim Horvath, and Alex Wiegmann: “How Much Harm Does It Take? An Experimental Study on Legal Expertise, the Severity Effect, and Intentionality Ascriptions”
- Gabriel Lima and Meeyoung Cha: “Human Perceptions of AI-Caused Harm”
- Christopher Brett Jaeger: “Reasonableness from an Experimental Jurisprudence Perspective”
- Lucien Baumgartner and Markus Kneer: “The Meaning of ‘Reasonable’ – Evidence from a Corpus-Linguistic Study”
- Roseanna Sommers: “Commonsense Consent and Action Representation – What is ‘Essential’ to Consent?”
- Neele Engelmann and Lara Kirfel: “Who Caused It? Different Effects of Statistical and Prescriptive Abnormality on Causal Selection in Chains”
- Ori Friedman: “Ownership for and Against Control”
- Andrew Higgins and Inbar Levy: “Examining the Foundations of the Law of Judicial Bias – Expert versus Lay Perspectives on Judicial Recusal”
- Jacqueline M. Chen and Teneille R. Brown: “The Promise and the Pitfalls of Mock Jury Studies – Testing the Psychology of Character Assessments”
- Piotr Bystranowski, Ivar Hannikainen, and Kevin Tobia: “Legal Interpretation as Coordination”
- Janet Randall and Lawrence Solan: “Legal Ambiguities – What Can Psycholinguistics Tell Us?”
- Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter: “Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Rights for Future Generations”
- Austin A. Baker and J. Remy Green: “The Right to Transgender Identity”
- Enrique Cáceres, Christopher Stephens, Azalea Reyes-Aguilar, Daniel Atilano, Manuel García, Rosa Lidia López-Bejarano, Susana González, Carmen Patricia López-Olvera, Octavio Salvador-Ginez, and Margarita Palacios: “The Legal Conductome – The Complexity Behind Decisions”
- Neil C. Thompson, Brian Flanagan, Edana Richardson, Brian McKenzie, and Xueyun Luo: “Trial by Internet – A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning”
Literature
Tobia, Kevin (ed.) (2025): The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Link)