This book provides an accessible introduction to the emerging field of behavioral public choice economics and the law. This field studies how public officials, lawmakers, and judges fall prey to their own biases and heuristics, and how constitutions and judicial doctrines can be structured to mitigate these cognitive shortcomings. Written lucidly in plain language, this book is invaluable to all students, scholars, and general readers interested in behavioral economics, law and economics, and political economy.

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Eric C. Ip (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor of Law and Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong. His research has been published in The American Journal of Comparative Law, American Journal of Public Health, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, The Lancet Public Health, and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. He is the author of Hybrid Constitutionalism (CUP, 2019) and Judging Regulators (Edward Elgar, 2020).