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The Importance Of 'The Gap', Emily Sherwin
The Importance Of 'The Gap', Emily Sherwin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
One of the central dilemmas of law is what Larry Alexander has called "the gap:" general, determinate rules have significant benefits from the forward-looking perspective of a lawmaker, but generate outcomes that appear wrong from the perspective of individual actors. In this 25-year retrospective of Alexander's initial article on the gap, I examine a possible way out of the dilemma of the gap, and conclude that it does not work.