"Published in cooperation with The Independent Institute."

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 An Introduction to The Pursuit of Justice
2 The Rise of Government Law Enforcement in England
3 Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes?
4 Romancing Forensics: Legal Failure in Forensic Science Administration
5 Judicial Checks on Corruption
6 Effects of Judicial Selection on Criminal Sentencing
7 Economic Development Takings as Government Failure
8 On the Impossibility of "Just Compensation" When Property Is Taken: An Ethical and Epistemic Inqui
9 The Lawyer-Judge Hypothesis
10 Class Action Rent Extraction: Theory and Evidence of Legal Extortion
11 Cy Pres and Its Predators
12 Licensing Lawyers: Failure in the Provision of Legal Services
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

"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