The Pursuit of Justice is a realistic yet hopeful analysis of how the law works in practice rather than in theory. The multi-chapter discussion recognizes that decision makers in the law – judges, lawyers, juries, police, forensic experts and more – respond systematically to the incentive structures with which they are confronted.
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Table of Content
An Introduction to the Pursuit of Justice; E.J.Lopez The Rise of Government Law Enforcement in England; N.Currott Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes?; R.S.Sobel Romancing Forensics: Legal Failure in Forensic Science Administration; R.G.Koppl Judicial Checks on Corruption; A.Cordis Effects of Judicial Selection on Criminal Sentencing; A.Tomic Economic Development Takings as Government Failure; I.Somin On the Impossibility of ‘Just Compensation’ When Property is Taken; J.Brätland The Lawyer-Judge Hypothesis; B.H.Barton Class Action Rent Extraction; J.Haymond Cy Pres and its Predators; C.N.W.Keckler Licensing Lawyers: Failure in the Provision of Legal Services; A.B.SummersAbout the author
EDWARD J. LÓPEZ is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and a professor of law and economics at San Jose State University, USA
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9780230109490 ● File size 4.1 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4991127 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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