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David A. Hoffman
Associate Professor of Law
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Dave Hoffman specializes in behavioral law and economics, empirical legal studies, and private dispute resolution, with a particular doctrinal focus on the law of fraud, contract and corporations. He currently teaches law and economics, contracts, corporations, and law and human behavior. Hoffman writes for the popular legal blog,
Concurring Opinions, and is a member of the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School.
In the Spring of 2009, Hoffman visited at Cornell Law School, and he is on research leave this Fall.
Professor Hoffman has recently co-authored the first comprehensive study of
litigation in which plaintiffs seek to "pierce the corporate veil." Other
quantitative research on dispute resolution includes a paper on why judges
write opinions, an analysis of
the meaning
of materiality under the securities law, and a study on how Wikipedians resolve their disputes.
His work in behavioral law and economics includes papers on
why individuals dislike breach of contract, the manner
in which corporate managers may "self-handicap,"
and
how
consumers react to puffery. Finally, he and other researchers at the
Cultural Cognition project have studied how individuals' values affect their perceptions of fact
in civil rights cases and their
attitudes
about wrongdoing more generally.
Hoffman's current research includes projects on the relationship of
cultural cognition to individuals' perceptions of torture, the manipulability of
the perceived risks of protesting, the relationship between fear of exploitation
and expensive precautions in contract negotiation, and empirical work on what
motivates settlement in civil disputes. more...
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Education
J.D., Harvard Law School
B.A., Yale University
Teaching Areas
Law and Economics, Contracts, Corporations, International Dispute Resolution, Law and Human Behavior
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Working Papers
- Motivating Selection
Effects (with C. Boyd)
- The Psychological Harm of
Breach of Contract (with T. Wilkinson-Ryan)
- Cultural Cognition
Projects (with D. Kahan and D. Braman)
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Biology, Culture and Anti-Utilitarian
Preferences
- Sticky
Law
- Unlawful
Persuasion
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The Commodification of Law
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Select Publications
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