Incomprehensible!: A Study of How Our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It - Hardcover

Wagner, Wendy; Walker, Will

 
9781107008472: Incomprehensible!: A Study of How Our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107008476 ISBN 13: 9781107008472
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Explains how the law often encourages actors to be incomprehensible in ways that actually undermine the purpose of the laws themselves.

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About the Authors

Wendy Wagner is Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law. She is the author of two books: Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research with Tom McGarity (2008), which received the Hamilton Grand Prize for the best book published at University of Texas in 2009, and Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research with Rena Steinzor (Cambridge, 2006).

Will Walker is a freelance writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a B.A. in English from Williams College, a Masters in Philosophy of Religion from Harvard Divinity School, and is currently pursuing a law degree at Harvard Law School.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107008476
ISBN 13 
9781107008472
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
356

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