Game Theory in Legal Context: Basic Principles and Applications in Law

Game theory is a very powerful instrumental framework designed to analyze and solve complicated situations, especially decision-making problems under conditions of uncertainty. Major problems and issues in legal practice and jurisprudence are decision-making problems under conditions of uncertainty, therefore, it seems quite natural to use game theory to solve these problems. Moreover, game theory's solutions for these legal problems and issues are very simple, easily applicable, inexpensive and considered to be fair in comparison to other solutions. The objective of this book is to make game theory in the legal context accessible for the reader, especially for legal practitioners, academics and students, using clear, simple and comprehensive theory, explanations and examples from daily legal practice. The applications in law include analysis of the law, existing and ideal, as well as applications in legal practice. Although game theory is classified as a branch of mathematics, the book is written and designed in a way that no mathematical background is required to fully understand the theory itself and its applications.

Gabriel Hallevy is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College. He lectures criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence law, AI and Cyber Law, conflict of laws and game theory and law. He has published over 40 academic books around the world, besides a few dozens of academic articles in prestigious law journals. Most of Professor Hallevy's books are cited by courts besides citations in academic books and articles. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree summa cum laude and publishing a few of his researches in law, Hallevy was promoted to full professor (2013) by the Israeli Council for Higher Education, becoming Israel's youngest full professor of law. That year he was chosen as one of the 40 most promising Israelis under the age of 40 ('Top 40 Under 40') by the leading economic magazine in Israel, 'Globes'. The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, granted him a special honorary prize for the research in criminal law. Hallevy's articles and books on artificial intelligence and criminal law have been translated into several languages, including Turkish, Korean and Chinese. In this issue he lectures not only to academic audience, but to general audience as well, including TED lecture and in Brain Bar Budapest. He is frequently cited in the Israeli Supreme Court, which has embraced many of his original ideas in criminal law. Hallevy is a long-distance runner, member of the Israeli Bar, holds a pilot license and speaks Hebrew, English, French and German.