Are There Cross-Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law

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Tobia, Kevin P.
Donelson, Raff
Dranseika, Vilius
Kneer, Markus
Strohmaier, Niek
Bystranowski, Piotr
Dolinina, Kristina
Janik, Bartosz
Keo, Sothie

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2021

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Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have arguedthat laws share certain abstract features and even speculated that law may be a human universal. Inthe present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered in 11 different coun-tries. Are there cross-cultural principles of law? In a between-subjects design, participants (N = 3,054)were asked whether there could be laws that violate certain procedural principles (e.g., laws applied retrospectively or unintelligible laws), and also whether there are any such laws. Confirming our pre-registered prediction, people reported that such laws cannot exist, but also (paradoxically) that there aresuch laws. These results document cross-culturally and –linguistically robust beliefs about the conceptof law which defy people’s grasp of how legal systems function in practice.

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Concepts; Experimental jurisprudence; Human universals; Lon Fuller; Modality; Naturallaw

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Cognitive Science
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en

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Área do Conhecimento CNPQ

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