Why the law is so perverse
By: Leo Katz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780226426037
Subjects: Social aspects; Law; Interpretation and construction; Law and ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Why does the law spurn win-win transactions?; title: Things we can't consent to, though no one knows why; title: A parable; title: Lessons; title: The social choice connection; title: Pt. II. Why is the law so full of loopholes?; title: The irresistible wrong answer; title: What is wrong with the irresistible answer?; title: The voting analogy; title: Turning the analogy into an identity; title: Intentional fouls; title: Pt. III. Why is the law so either/or?; title: The proverbial rigidity of the law; title: Line drawing as a matter of life and death; title: Pt. IV. Why don't we punish all we condemn?; title: The undercriminalization problem; title: Multicriterial ranking and the undercriminalization problem.