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2007

Daniel Cohen

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The Hidden Harm Of Law And Economics, Daniel Cohen Sep 2007

The Hidden Harm Of Law And Economics, Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen

The paper deals with the adverse psychodynamic consequences to an individual and to society, immediately and in the long run, of dissolving individual responsibility for fault as in the doctrine of Law and economics.


On Mutual Mistakes, Daniel Cohen Sep 2007

On Mutual Mistakes, Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen

Herein we reconsider what has for over a century been a judicial inconsistency inspiring mostly dismissive scorn. We find a classical disparity in judicial reasoning to have a surprising hidden profundity and we identify it as a sincere though unintentional attempt of erstwhile courts to perform what would today be seem as an admirable effort of social policy making. We shall examine a curious pair of seemingly inconsistent rulings from a century ago and conclude that they are actually consistent with the principles of Law and Economics as understood today, although they were at that time uncomfortably incongruous. The only …


On Mutual Mistakes, Daniel Cohen Feb 2007

On Mutual Mistakes, Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen

Herein we reconsider what has for over a century been a judicial inconsistency inspiring mostly dismissive scorn. We find a classical disparity in judicial reasoning to have a surprising hidden profundity and we identify it as a sincere though unintentional attempt of erstwhile courts to perform what would today be seen as an admirable effort of social policy making. We shall examine a curious pair of seemingly inconsistent rulings from a century ago and conclude that they are actually consistent with the principles of Law and Economics as understood today, although they were at that time uncomfortably incongruous. The only …


On Mutual Mistakes, Daniel Cohen Feb 2007

On Mutual Mistakes, Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen

Herein we reconsider what has for over a century been a judicial inconsistency inspiring mostly dismissive scorn. We find a classical disparity in judicial reasoning to have a surprising hidden profundity and we identify it as a sincere though unintentional attempt of erstwhile courts to perform what would today be seen as an admirable effort of social policy making. We shall examine a curious pair of seemingly inconsistent rulings from a century ago and conclude that they are actually consistent with the principles of Law and Economics as understood today, although they were at that time uncomfortably incongruous. The only …