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: Legal Theory BlogHylton & Khanna on the Political Economy of Criminal Procedure
By Lawrence Solum
Keith N. Hylton and Vikramaditya S. Khanna (Boston University - School of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Law School) have posted Political Economy of Criminal Procedure on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This chapter presents a public choice theory of criminal procedure. The core idea is that criminal procedure is best understood as a set of rules designed to thwart attempts to use the state's law enforcement power in a predatory fashion or in order to transfer wealth generally. For the most part we focus on a set of core procedural protections that can be considered long-established norms.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).
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