This first Homo Juridicus project seeks to give a comprehensive overview of the state of scientific empirical knowledge about how legal rules shape human behaviour. Here, it draws from across the social and behavioural sciences, from disciplines such as psychology, criminology, sociology, anthropology, behavioural economics, management science, and behavioural ethics. It uses three approaches to provide an overview of the existing state of the field:

1. Commission leading scholars to write literature reviews about the most important behavioural interventions and mechanisms, as well as the limitations of methods used to study law’s influences on behavior. This will result in 69 chapters to be published by Cambridge University Press as the Cambridge Handbook of Compliance (edited by Benjamin van Rooij and Daniel Sokol).
2. Collect other available reviews (including meta-analyses, systematic reviews and qualitative reviews) for the most important behavioural mechanisms and interventions. For reviews collected see here. 

Develop memos which give short overviews of the available literature. These memos form the basis to the survey we use to assess behavioral assumptions of studied respondents (projects 2-5). Each memo covers the available knowledge for a particular mechanism or intervention. Each memo has been reviewed by a leading expert on the subject to ensure that it provides a sound overview of existing knowledge.