How do people make decisions about legally relevant actions? In this group report we look at the demand side of legal information, the supply side of legal information, and how the law reaches its addressees through a range of real-world examples familiar to ordinary citizens. The first part of the report is concerned with the issue of how people decide to act under laws. Since optimization is impossible in ordinary minds, we speculate about what other processes may be at play in determining behavior. In the second part, we look at how people learn about laws that may govern behavior. Since modern law is too massive for any individual to comprehend fully, we aim to understand how people figure out what the laws are, and when to undertake research into the law. The third part outlines, by way of examples, ways by which actual laws make their way to their addressees. We conclude by exploring policy considerations that present themselves when viewing law’s impact on behavior as mediated by heuristics.
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