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

Sarat Austin

Law and lies : Deception and truth-telling in the American legal system - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015 - 331p xi

Table of contents;
Introduction Austin Sarat;
1. Where the law lies: constitutional fictions and their discontents Mary Anne Franks;
2. 2. The artifice of advocacy: perjury and participation in the American adversary system Norman W. Spaulding;
3. 3. Lies to manipulate, misappropriate, and acquire governmental power Helen Norton;
4. 4. Lies, rape, and statutory rape Stuart P. Green;
5. 5. Law and the production of deceit William N. Eskridge, Jr;
6. Afterword: law, lies, and law schools Montre Carodine.


9781107108783


1. Torts - U S A 2. Truthfulness & Falsehood3. Deception - Fraud

346.030000 / SAR