Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment
A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2010
696 pages
978-0-19-999591-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment, Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger have written a systematic guide to creative problem solving that prepares students to exercise effective judgment and decision making skills in the complex social environments in which they will work. The book represents a major milestone in the education of lawyers and policymakers,
Developed by two leaders in the field, this first book of its type includes material drawn from statistics, decision science, social and cognitive psychology, the "judgment and decision making" (JDM) literature, and behavioral economics. It combines quantitative approaches to empirical analysis and decision making (statistics and decision science) with the psychological literature illustrating the systematic errors of the intuitive decision maker. The book can stand alone as a text or serve as a supplement to a core law or public policy curriculum.
Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers prepares students and professionals to be creative problem solvers, wise counselors, and effective decision makers. The authors' ultimate goals are to help readers "get it right" in their roles as professionals and citizens, and to arm them against common sources of judgment error.
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Paul Brest | Linda Hamilton Krieger
Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment
A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers
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Paul Brest is professor emeritus and former Dean of the Stanford Law School. He is President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He teaches a graduate course on Judgment and Decision Making at Stanford University.
Linda Hamilton Krieger is a Professor of Law and Director of the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law in Honolulu, Hawai'i and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.
Content
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISIONMAKING
Chapter 0. Preface
Chapter 1. The Lawyer and Policymaker as Problem solver and Decisionmaker: The Roles of Deliberation, Intuition, and Expertise
Chapter 2. Framing Problems and Identifying Objectives And Identifying Problem Causes
Chapter 3. Generating Alternatives: Creativity in Legal and Policy Problem Solving
Chapter 4. Choosing Among Alternatives
PART TWO
Making Sense of an Uncertain World
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter 5. Introduction to Statistics and Probability
Chapter 6. Scores, Dollars, and Other Quantitative Variables
Chapter 7. Interpreting Statistical Results
Chapter 8. Explaining and predicting one-time events
Chapter 9. Biases in Perception and Memory
Chapter 10. Biases in Processing and Judging Information
Chapter 11. The Social Perceiver: Processes and Problems in Social Cognition
PART THREE
MAKING DECISIONS
Introduction to Part Three
Chapter 12. Choices, Consequences, and Tradeoffs
Chapter 13. Complexities of Decisionmaking: Relationships to our Future Selves
Chapter 14. Complexities of Decisionmaking: The Power of Frames
Chapter 15. Decisionmaking Under risk
Chapter 16. The Role of Affect in Risky Decisions
Conclusion to Part Three
Part Four
Influencing Decisions
Introduction to Part Four
Chapter 17: Social Influence
Chapter 18: Influencing Behavior Through Cognition
Chapter 19. Group Decisionmaking
Chapter 20. Conclusion: Learning from Experience
