title: The neuroeconomic path of the law.
abstract: Advances in evolutionary biology, experimental economics and neuroscience are shedding new light on age-old questions about right and wrong, justice, freedom, the rule of law and the relationship between the individual and the state. Evidence is beginning to accumulate suggesting that humans evolved certain fundamental behavioural predispositions grounded in our intense social natures, that those predispositions are encoded in our brains as a distribution of probable behaviours, and therefore that there may be a core of universal human law.
authors.affiliation: Second Judicial District (Denver), State of Colorado, 1437 Bannock Street, Courtroom 9, Denver, CO 80203, USA. morris.hoffman@judicial.state.co.us
authors.forename: Morris B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hoffman
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004467:Economics; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D009446:Neurobiology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010684:Philosophy; D012935:Social Justice