Evolution of Cooperation in a Legal-Normative Environment, a Game-Theoretic Model

Legal normativity allows to perform in the mind a future and uncertain behavior or event as if it were present and, in this regard, legal-normativity could be thought as a temporal shifting which allows contemporaneous consideration of temporally detached realities. The two components of legal normativity are: the 'ought to be' conceived as the statement of the fulfilling of a future and uncertain event, assessed with a likelihood instead of a casual relation, and the mental state of trust in the occurrence of the 'ought to be'. General game-theoretic methods are applied and special attention is paid to the conditions for evolving a cooperative behavior without maximizing the individual fitness in a legal-normative environment.