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Leo Katz

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Leo Katz’s work focuses on criminal law and legal theory more generally. By connecting criminal law, moral philosophy and the theory of social choice, he tries to shed light on some of the most basic building block notions of the law—coercion, deception, consent, and the use and abuse of legal stratagems, among others. Katz is the author of several books: Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (University of Chicago, 1987); Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud and Kindred Puzzles of the Law (University of Chicago, 1996); and most recently Why the Law Is So Perverse (forthcoming), which he researched with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Together with Stephen Morse and Michael Moore, he edited Foundations of ...more

Average rating: 3.87 · 143 ratings · 12 reviews · 37 distinct works
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: ...

4.23 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions
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Why the Law Is So Perverse

3.56 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, ...

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Foundations of Criminal Law...

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Cazadores de muerte

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By Leo Katz - Bad Acts and ...

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Tamar

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Brennende Dörfer

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Die Grenzbuben

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Tamar

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