Law and lies : deception and truth-telling in the American legal system / edited by Austin Sarat.

Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth - 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' - competing values often cause law to look the other way. How and why is lying alternately accepted, condemned, or p...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors:	Sarat, Austin (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Deception > United States. Fraud > United States. Torts > United States. Truthfulness and falsehood > United States.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316258293
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!