Law and lies : deception and truth-telling in the American legal system /

"Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth - 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' - competing values often cause law to look the other way. How and why is lying alternately accepted, condemned...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Deception > United States.
Fraud > United States.
Torts > United States.
Truthfulness and falsehood > United States.
Tromperie > États-Unis.
Fraude > États-Unis.
Responsabilité civile > États-Unis.
Mensonge > États-Unis.
LAW > General.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Deception
Fraud
Torts
Truthfulness and falsehood
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Law and lies: an introduction / Austin Sarat with Haley Cambra, Sarah Smith, and Olivia Truax
  • 1. Where the law lies: constitutional fictions and their discontents / Mary Anne Franks
  • 2. The artifice of advocacy: perjury and participation in the American adversary system / Norman W. Spaulding
  • 3. Lies to manipulate, misappropriate, and acquire governmental power / Helen Norton
  • 4. Lies, rape, and statutory rape / Stuart P. Green
  • 5. Law and the production of deceit / William N. Eskridge, Jr
  • Afterword: law, lies, and law schools / Montré D. Carodine.

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