The pursuit of justice: law and economics of legal institutions /  edited by Edward J. Lopez  

 - New York:  Palgrave Macmillan,  2010. 
 - x, 303p. ;  24cm. 
<br/><br/> "Published in cooperation with The Independent Institute." 
<br/><br/>List of Illustrations<br/>Foreword<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>1 An Introduction to The Pursuit of Justice<br/>2 The Rise of Government Law Enforcement in England<br/>3 Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes?<br/>4 Romancing Forensics: Legal Failure in Forensic Science Administration<br/>5 Judicial Checks on Corruption<br/>6 Effects of Judicial Selection on Criminal Sentencing<br/>7 Economic Development Takings as Government Failure<br/>8 On the Impossibility of "Just Compensation" When Property Is Taken: An Ethical and Epistemic Inqui<br/>9 The Lawyer-Judge Hypothesis<br/>10 Class Action Rent Extraction: Theory and Evidence of Legal Extortion<br/>11 Cy Pres and Its Predators<br/>12 Licensing Lawyers: Failure in the Provision of Legal Services<br/>Bibliography<br/>Notes on Contributors<br/>Index 
<br/><br/> "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 which they are confronted. In turn, incentives are a function of economic and institutional design. While these chapters shed light on how perverse incentives result in adverse outcomes, each chapter also suggests institutional reforms that would create better incentives within the legal system"--Provided by publisher 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230102446 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Justice, Administration of United States<br/> Law Philosophy Law and economics <br/>Legal systems<br/>Law reform
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340.11  / LOP