Evolutionary Theories in Law and Economics and Their Use for Comparative Legal Theory

Georg von Wangenheim
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Georg von Wangenheim: University of Kassel

Review of Law & Economics, 2011, vol. 7, issue 3, pages 5

Abstract:

Evolutionary Law and Economics explains how law evolves in possibly path dependent ways. The theory therefore seems apt to help comparative legal theory in understanding and evaluating legal variation across jurisdictions. This paper reviews evolutionary approaches in Law and Economics to study in a more precise way whether and how different strands of the approach may be useful for the comparative lawyer.

Keywords: Evolutionary Law and Economics; Comparative Legal Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K00 B52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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