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Author Katz, Leo.

Title Why the law is so perverse / Leo Katz.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  340.11 KA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-231) and index.
Contents Pt. I. 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 -- Pt. II. 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 -- Pt. III. Why is the law so either/or? -- The proverbial rigidity of the law -- Line drawing as a matter of life and death -- Pt. IV. Why don't we punish all we condemn? -- The undercriminalization problem -- Multicriterial ranking and the undercriminalization problem.
Subject Law -- Interpretation and construction.
Law -- Social aspects.
Law and ethics.
ISBN 9780226426037 cloth alkaline paper
0226426033 cloth alkaline paper
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