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 whichthey are confronted. INDICE: An Introduction to the Pursuit of Justice - Edward J. Lopez * The Rise of Government Law Enforcement in England - Nicholas Currott * Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? - Russell S. Sobel * RomancingForensics: Legal Failure in Forensic Science Administration - Roger G. Koppl * Judicial Checks on Corruption - Adriana Cordis * Effects of Judicial Selection on Criminal Sentencing - Aleksandar Tomic * Economic Development Takings asGovernment Failure - Ilya Somin * On the Impossibility of ""Just Compensation"" When Property is Taken - John Brätland * The Lawyer-Judge Hypothesis - Benjamin H. Barton * Class Action Rent Extraction - Jeffrey Haymond * Cy Pres and its Predators - Charles N. W. Keckler * Licensing Lawyers: Failure in the Provision of Legal Services - Adam B. Summers
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10245-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 316
- Fecha Publicación: 09/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés