‘What is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order,’ by Gillian Hadfield and Barry Weingast
“What Is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order” by Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast asks whether legal order requires a centralized enforcement agency. The paper argues it does not. It presents a model in which a system of decentralized enforcement, carried out collectively by individual agents, sustains legal order. ... ‘What is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order,’ by Gillian Hadfield and Barry Weingast