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Reasonableness on the Clapham Omnibus: Exploring the Outcome-Sensitive Folk Concept of Reasonable

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2022
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Kneer, M. (2022). Reasonableness on the Clapham Omnibus: Exploring the Outcome-Sensitive Folk Concept of Reasonable. In P. Bystranowski, B. Janik, & M. Próchnicki (Eds.), Judicial decision-making : integrating empirical and theoretical perspectives (No. 14; Issue 14, pp. 25–48). Springer (Bücher). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11744-2_3

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The reasonable person standard is of great importance to US criminal and tort law. According to the law, whether or not an agent acted reasonably does not depend on features of the outcome which are not under her control. Mock juror attributions of reasonableness, however, are shown to be outcome-dependent. A series of experiments reveals that this outcome-dependence does not constitute a bias, since the very folk concept of reasonableness is outcome-sensitive. Consequently, the law makes a mistaken assumption as to what kind of conce

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  • Bystranowski, Piotr
  • Janik, Bartosz
  • Próchnicki, Maciej

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Judicial decision-making : integrating empirical and theoretical perspectives

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Cham

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25

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48

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Negligence, Reasonableness, Mens rea, Hindsight bias, Outcome effect

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English

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2022

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2022-01-17

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Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship

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2512-1308

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978-3-031-11743-5

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Judicial decision-making : integrating empirical and theoretical perspectives in Economic analysis of law in European legal scholarship. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11744-2_3

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Kneer, M. (2022). Reasonableness on the Clapham Omnibus: Exploring the Outcome-Sensitive Folk Concept of Reasonable. In P. Bystranowski, B. Janik, & M. Próchnicki (Eds.), Judicial decision-making : integrating empirical and theoretical perspectives (No. 14; Issue 14, pp. 25–48). Springer (Bücher). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11744-2_3

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