Today W&L Law Professor Susan Frank gave a seminar presentation at the World Trade Institute at Universität Bern. The title of her talk was “Thinking, Fast and Slow: Behavioral Economics Meets International Law.” Building off of the successes of cognitive psychology and its derivative insights for behavioral economic, this talk explored the insights from cognitive psychology for international investment law. By taking a closer look at the literature related to biases, heuristics and judicial decisionmaking, this seminar identified the potential insights for decisions involving international investment law both in the form of treaty making and treaty adjudication.
