John N. Drobak earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After earning his law degree from Stanford University in 1973, he clerked for the California Court of Appeals and then practiced law for five years in New Haven, Connecticut. He joined the law faculty at Washington University in 1979, where he served as Associate Dean from 1986 to 1990, and now holds appointments as the George Alexander Madill Professor of Law in the School of Law and also in the Department of Economics in Arts and Sciences. He is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Law, a fellow in the Center in Political Economy in Arts and Sciences, and former co-director of the Business, Law, and Economics Center in the John M. Olin School of Business. In his pro bono work, he consulted with Vaclav Klaus, then Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia and now President of the Czech Republic, in connection with Czechoslovakia's voucher privatization of large government enterprises and with the Republic of Georgia in connection with the drafting of a new constitution.
Introduction John N. Drobak; Part I. Rationality and Norms: 1. Social norms
and other-regarding preferences Lynn A. Stout; 2. Damages, norms, and
punishment Cass R. Sunstein; 3. Cognitive science and the study of the
'rules of the game' in a world of uncertainty Douglass C. North; Part II.
Norms of the Commons: 4. Norms of the household Robert C. Ellickson; 5.
Commons Lawrence Lessig; 6. How norms help reduce the tragedy of the
commons: a multi-layer framework for analyzing field experiments
Juan-Camilo Cárdenas and Elinor Ostrom; Part III. Judicial Norms: 7.
Judging the judges: some remarks on the way judges think and the way judges
act Lawrence M. Friedman; 8. Judicial independence in a democracy:
institutionalizing judicial restraint John Ferejohn and Larry D. Kramer; 9.
Black judges and ascriptive group identity Kathryn Abrams; 10. Judicial
norms: a judge's perspectives Harry T. Edwards; Part IV. The Influence of
Law on Norms: 11. Normative evaluation and legal analogues Amartya Sen;
References; Index.
