Leo Katz

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Professor of Law

3501 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

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1.

Villainy and Felony: A Problem Concerning Criminalization

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Feb 2003
Leo Katz
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Choice, Consent, and Cycling: The Hidden Limitations of Consent

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 104, p. 627, 2006, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-01
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2009
Leo Katz
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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law and economics, consent, criminal law, tort law, contracts

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What to Compensate? Some Surprisingly Unappreciated Reasons Why the Problem is so Hard

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jun 2003
Leo Katz
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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jurisprudence, remedies, torts, contracts

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Before and after: Temporal Anomalies in Legal Doctrine

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Nov 2002
Leo Katz
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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criminal law, jurisprudence, torts, misconduct, blame, liability, punishment

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Circumvention of Law and the Hidden Logic behind It

The Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 52, No. 1, p.51, 2023, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-30
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Jul 2023
Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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circumvention of law, lawyers, legal systems, anti-evasion rules, loophole exploitation, evasion, law-makers, legal circumvention, manipulation, resequencing, legal route, manipulation theorem, equivalence proposition, choice functions, utility functions, rationalizable by a preference

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Preempting Oneself: The Right and the Duty to Forestall One's Own Wrongdoing

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 May 2000
Leo Katz
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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The Inevitability and Ubiquity of Cycling in All Feasible Legal Regimes: A Formal Proof

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 46, Pg. 237, 2017, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-13
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Aug 2018
Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Law and economics, philosophy, decision theory, intransitivity, social choice, revealed preferences, exploitation of loopholes, option-stratified legal systems, duress, self-defense, context-dependent alternatives, Kenneth Arrow, impossibility theorem

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A Characterization of Consideration Functions: When Asymmetric Revealed Preferences Suffice

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Dec 2021
Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Constraints, Caractherization, Optimization, Asymmetry, Revealed Preferences