Prof. Yuval Feldman of Bar Ilan will receive funding of 2.5 million euros in the next five years for his proposal "Understanding the feasibility of voluntary compliance in different doctrines and cultures: examining behavioral and regulatory aspects in the ability of democratic governments to trust in the cooperation, compliance and ethics of their citizens"
Prof. Yuval Feldman from the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, won the research grant of the European Research Council - ERC Advanced. Prof. Feldman will receive the grant there to promote his research dealing with the question of how democratic countries can trust the cooperation of the public. Prof. Feldman is one of the few lawyers in Europe who won the grant ERC Advanced In recent years.
Prof. Feldman will receive funding of 2.5 million euros over the next five years for his proposal "Understanding the Feasibility of Voluntary Compliance in Different Doctrines and Cultures: Examining Behavioral and Regulatory Aspects in the Ability of Democratic Governments to Trust in the Cooperation, Compliance, and Ethics of Their Citizens."
The benefits of voluntary compliance by the public to laws and regulations by various means in democratic countries are clear both from considerations of justice and from considerations of efficiency, and the corona epidemic illustrated this even more strongly. However, in the absence of relying on traditional regulatory measures and classical enforcement techniques, governments, regulators and enforcement bodies have difficulty knowing in advance whether they will be able to rely on the voluntary cooperation of the public without harming the objectives of the supervision and other protected values.
Identifying in advance and analyzing the cases where voluntary compliance of sufficiently broad sections of the population is possible, effective and just will strengthen the theoretical and practical understanding of the nature of the interaction between democratic governments and their citizens. Such an identification will even make it possible to assess the relative effectiveness of behavior-based regulatory tools in a broader examination of their impact on the conduct of citizens over time and in various areas of life such as public health, taxes, the environment and commercial ethics. Prof. Feldman's project will develop new empirical models and methodologies for the systematic comparison and prediction of the relative effectiveness of different regulatory measures, as a function of the legal doctrine and culture in that country.
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Bar-Ilan University's Vice President for Research, points out an interesting trend in the European Union: "More and more budgetary ERC recently referred to the theoretical sciences and there is a very large budgetary opportunity for researchers in the field. Prof. Feldman is the only jurist from Israel who won a grant this time and we are proud of him for that."
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