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

Name: Law and lies : deception and truth-telling in the American legal system / edited by Austin Sarat.
ISBN: 9781316258293

Sarat, Austin,

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

Sarat, Austin, editor.

2015

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

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Sarat, Austin, editor.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

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Law and lies: an introduction / Austin Sarat with Haley Cambra, Sarah Smith, and Olivia Truax
1. Where the law lies: constitutional fictions and their discontents / Mary Anne Franks
2. The artifice of advocacy: perjury and participation in the American adversary system / Norman W. Spaulding
3. Lies to manipulate, misappropriate, and acquire governmental power / Helen Norton
4. Lies, rape, and statutory rape / Stuart P. Green
5. Law and the production of deceit / William N. Eskridge, Jr
Afterword: law, lies, and law schools / Montré D. Carodine.

Summary

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 prosecuted? What are the government's interests in allowing or disallowing lying? Law and Lies is the first book to thematically address the role of lying in the American legal system. Undercover police agents are permitted to lie in the name of catching criminals, and government officials are permitted to lie in service of national security. In the case of the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy, lying was not only permitted, but actively encouraged. A range of illuminating case studies reveal that the government's tolerance of deception is rarely as simple as the 'whole truth'.

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English