http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211008-061437-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/international-pandemic-lawmaking-some-perspectives-from-behavioural-economics/ International Pandemic Lawmaking: Some Perspectives from Behavioural Economics van Aaken, Anne Broude, Tomer eng 2021-10-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 behavioural economics COVID 19 Pandemic Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In this brief essay, we wish to highlight some insights from behavioural economics that can contribute to a successful process of international pandemic lawmaking. Our interest here is not to engage with individual or collective psychological reactions to pandemics or other large-scale risks, or with substantive policy made in their wake. Several such behavioural issues and dimensions have been dealt with elsewhere, not without (ongoing) spirited debate. Here, however, while building on related frameworks of analysis from the field of behavioral economics, as applied to international law (including nudge theory), our focus is on the process and design of pandemic international law-making.