The Legal Analyst Quotes

“But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

“The Role of Deterrence in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules: At Its Worst When Doing Its Best, 91 Geo. L J. 949 (2003); Dan M. Kahan, The Secret Ambition of Deterrence, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 413 (1999) ;”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law