The Pursuit of Justice Law and Economics of Legal Institutions

The Pursuit of Justice is a thoroughgoing analysis of the bureaucratization and politicization of the U. S. legal system and how the law works in practice rather than in theory. The book looks specifically at how decision makers in the law-judges, lawyers, juries, police, forensic experts, and more-respond to economic incentive structure. By looking at a range of important legal rules, their associated incentive effects, and the resultant outcomes, the authors here shed light on how perverse incentives result in adverse outcomes, while also suggesting institutional reforms that would create a more just and efficient legal system. Book jacket.