Eunate Mayor - IRIT - SMAC

A Dynamic View on Normative Behavior: Agent-Based Models of Law


When dealing with norm compliance, we can talk about three different layers. First, law's addressees consider their potential legal liability in case they don't abide the norm. Monetary sanctions, incentives and other deterrence measures are essential.
Second, the morally persuasive role that is inherent to law, `it's the right thing to do'. Individuals belong to communities, and share general respect for a system of values and norms, whose violation elicits at least informal disapproval.
Third, the procedural aspect. Once the norm is established and the efficacy of its deterrence methods evaluated, authorities must find an adequate way to deal with cases of possible liability resulting from non-compliance. I will focus on this last aspect of compliance, presenting an agent-based model of litigation.