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November 20th, 2005 at 11:41 am

“How Many Laws Did You Break This Week?”

In a paper published by the Golden, Colo.-based Independence Institute, Mike Krause and Chelsea Johnson examine the problem of overcriminalization in one state, Colorado. (Publication # IP-9-2005, Sept., PDF). More: via Mike Cernovich, here’s word of a symposium on overcriminalization in the American University Law Review with contributions from (all PDF): Ellen S. Podgor, John S. Baker, Jr., John Hasnas, Peter J. Henning, Erik Luna, Sara Sun Beale, Geraldine Szott Moohr, and Paul Rosenzweig.

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