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Why the law is so perverse
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- Creator
- Leo Katz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xi, 239 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226426033, 9780226426037
- OCLC
- ocn688559502
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Why does the law spurn win-win transactions? -- Things we can't consent to, though no one knows why -- A parable -- Lessons -- The social choice connection -- Why is the law so full of loopholes? -- The irresistible wrong answer -- What is wrong with the irresistible answer? -- The voting analogy -- Turning the analogy into an identity -- Intentional fouls -- Why is the law so either/or? -- The proverbial rigidity of the law -- Line drawing as a matter of life and death -- Why don't we punish all we condemn? -- The undercriminalization problem -- Multicriterial ranking and the undercriminalization problem -- Final thoughts