A colloquium at the intersection of law, society, and cognition: integrating sociological and philosophical paradigms with the cognitive sciences
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law and cognition, socio-legal studies, legal realism, decision-making, legal philosophy, normativityAbstract
This article introduces the works presented at the Colloquium on the intersections of law, society, and cognition, which brought into dialogue socio-legal studies, legal realism, legal philosophy, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The contributions collected in this issue challenge the idea that legal norms, reasoning, and decision-making can be understood as autonomous from the cognitive, emotional, and social conditions in which they emerge and operate. Across topics such as heuristics and biases, intuition, normativity, responsibility, artificial intelligence, and legal education, the special issue shows how cognition shapes both the application of law and the formation of legal judgment. Taken together, these essays argue for an interdisciplinary and socio-cognitive approach to law, capable of integrating empirical research with theoretical reflection in order to better understand legal practice and its institutional implications.
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Balconi, M., and Crivelli, D., 2026. Decision-making between biases and strategies: The contribution of cognitive neuroscience. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2308 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2308
Bombelli, G.,2026. Law and cognition: On some issues and developments. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2314
Campo, A., 2026. The heuristic value of emotion in legal education: From foundation to experience. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2306
Catellani, P., and Piastra, M., 2026. Biases and debiasing in human and artificial intelligence. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2304 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2304
Cominelli, L., 2026. The socio-cognitive perspective: Why does ‘the cognitive’ matter? Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2303 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2303
Di Lucia, P., and Passerini Glazel, L., 2026. The dialectic of real and ideal in the phenomenology of the normative. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2317
Fittipaldi, E., 2026. A cognitive approach to Max Weber’s ‘Comprehensional Sociology’ (with an exclusive focus on the Soziologische Grundbegriffe). Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2336 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2336
Fujita, M. and Taniguchi, Y., 2026. Construal level of thought and the perceived norm level: A quasi-experiment study. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2325 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2325
Langford, P., 2026. Between social science and cognitive science: Gunther Teubner on fundamental rights. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2319 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2319
Lettieri, N., and Pica, I., 2026. From minds to law: Agent-based modeling and the interplay between cognition, society, and the legal world. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2311 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2311
Ralli, T., 2026. Skilful legal judgment and varieties of intuition. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2320 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2320
Serpe, A., 2026. Realist theory of adjudication to the test of cognitive science. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2305 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2305
Velo Dalbrenta, D., 2026. Revealing criminal motives: Legal cognition between science, rhetoric and criminology. Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 16(2-this issue). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2312
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