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

Ivar R. Hannikainen, Kevin P. Tobia, Guilherme da F. C. F. Almeida, Raff Donelson, Vilius Dranseika, Markus Kneer, Niek Strohmaier, Piotr Bystranowski, Kristina Dolinina, Bartosz Janik, Sothie Keo, Eglė Lauraitytė, Alice Liefgreen, Maciej Próchnicki, Alejandro Rosas, Noel Struchiner

Cognitive Science, Volume: 45, Issue: 8

Swansea University Author: Alice Liefgreen

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/cogs.13024

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Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have argued that laws share certain abstract features and even speculated that law may be a human universal. In the present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered in 11 different count...

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ISSN: 0364-0213 1551-6709
Published: Wiley 2021
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