法の経済分析は、米国をはじめとする世界各地で影響力を持っている。米国の司法判断では、経済分析や法と経済学の理論が一定の頻度で用いられており、英連邦諸国やヨーロッパ諸国でもその傾向は強まっている。法と経済学の影響は法学教育にも及んでおり、一部の国ではこの分野の大学院課程が設けられている。大陸法系の国々における法と経済学の影響は、英語やその他のヨーロッパ言語で法と経済学の教科書が入手可能であることからも測ることができる(Schäfer and Ott 2004; Mackaay 2013)。
Relatedly, legal scholarship has also criticized the movement for allowing its framing of models to dictate its results, for overemphasizing or underemphasizing specific incentives and costs, and for building models that do not degrade "gracefully" (and therefore have difficulty modeling reality).[53] In other words, the law and economics movement may not achieve "efficiency", even to the extent that allocative efficiency is the goal of the law.[54]
Criminal methodology
Cullerne Bown has criticized Posner's approach on methodological grounds. He concludes that Posner's approach to evaluating policies in the criminal process is methodologically invalid and that "these failings in turn make the entirety of his conclusions on the criminal process unreliable".[55]
Responses to criticism
Law and economics has adapted to some of these criticisms and has been developed in a variety of directions. One important trend has been the application of game theory to legal problems.[56] Other developments have been the incorporation of behavioral economics into economic analysis of law,[57] and the increasing use of statistical and econometrics techniques.[58] Within the legal academy, the term socio-economics has been applied to economic approaches that are self-consciously broader than the neoclassical tradition.
Property rights, analyzed through economic analysis, are regarded as fundamental human rights by defenders of law and economics.[59]
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