Pt. I. Why does the law spurn win-win transactions?
Things we can't consent to, though no one knows why
A parable
Lessons
The social choice connection
Pt. II. Why is the law so full of loopholes?
The irresistible wrong answer
What is wrong with the irresistible answer?
The voting analogy
Turning the analogy into an identity
Intentional fouls
Pt. III. Why is the law so either/or?
The proverbial rigidity of the law
Line drawing as a matter of life and death
Pt. IV. Why don't we punish all we condemn?
The undercriminalization problem
Multicriterial ranking and the undercriminalization problem.
Why the law is so perverse by Leo Katz. ISBN 9780226426037. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.