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Oct. 22, 2011
An exploration of the law’s philosophical side
The law is riddled with fundamentally strange features - why? By Leo Katz of Unviersity of Pennsylvania Law School
Conundrums, puzzles and perversities: these are Leo Katz's stock-in-trade and the focus of "Why the Law Is So Perverse" (University of Chicago Press, Fall 2011). Katz's combination of playfulness and seriousness led The New York Times Book Review to call his first book "a fascinating romp through the philosophical side of the law."
There are ideas that are preposterous on their face, and yet ...
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