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The Lure of Poetry and the Law of Punshiment

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 03:52 PM PDT

Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published Punishment and the Costs of Knowledge, in Hearing Heaney (Four Courts Press, 2013/2014). Here is the abstract.

A too-bookish law professor doesn't know if literature has helped refine her position on the death penalty, or just turned her into an insufferable snob: An essay on elitism, bibliomania, confusion, and capital punishment.
Download the full text of the essay from SSRN at the link. 
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