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How to Reason About the Law: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Foundations of
How to Reason About the Law An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Foundations of Author:David Crump Small excerpt from Preface: This is a kind of "thinker's tool kit" for law students. It is a guide to clear legal reasoning. The sources range from Plato to Pareto, from Kant to Clausewitz, from Rawls to Rousseau, from Freud to Friedman, and from Adam and Eve to Adam Smith. In these pages, you will be amused by the fallacy of Bertrand Russell's ... more »chicken, as well as game theorists' analyses of the game of chicken. You will see how air conditioning works, how the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is diagnosed, and how General Norman Schwartzkopf started the invasion of Iraq in Desert Storm. And most importantly, you will apply every one of these ideas to interdisciplinary issues of law and justice...« less