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Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: lkatz@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Contracts
- Corporations
- Criminal Law
- Jurisprudence
Bio
Leo Katz’s work focuses on criminal law and legal theory more generally.
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Leo Katz’s work focuses on criminal law and legal theory more generally. By connecting criminal law, moral philosophy and the theory of social choice, he tries to shed light on some of the most basic building block notions of the law—coercion, deception, consent, and the use and abuse of legal stratagems, among others. Katz is the author of several books: Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (University of Chicago, 1987); Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud and Kindred Puzzles of the Law (University of Chicago, 1996 ); and most recently Why the Law Is So Perverse (forthcoming), which he researched with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Together with Stephen Morse and Michael Moore, he edited Foundations of the Criminal Law (Oxford, 1999).
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Frank Carano Professor of Law (2005- ); Professor of Law (1991-2005)
University of Michigan Law School - Assistant Professor (1987-91)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Mayer, Brown and Platt - Associate (1984-87)
Visiting - Australian National University, RSSS; Berkeley (Guggenheim fellowship for work in criminal law theory; Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt);
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2007-08)
Representative Publications
Complicity and the Murderous Judge, in CRIMINAL LAW STORIES (R. Weissberg ed., forthcoming 2008).
Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem, 5 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008) (with Claire Finkelstein).
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In Defense of Tax Shelters, 26 VA. TAX REV. 799 (2007).
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Choice, Consent and Cycling:The Hidden Limitations of Consent, 104 MICH. L. REV. 627 (2006).
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The Prerequisites of Responsibility: Comments on Antony Duff, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 463 (2005).
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Before and After: Temporal Anomalies in Legal Doctrine, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 863 (2003).
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What to Compensate? Some Surprisingly Unappreciated Reasons Why the Problem Is So Hard, 40 U. SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1345, symposium on Harms, Baselines and Counterfactuals (2003).
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Justification and Harm in Negligence, 4 THEORETICAL INQUIRY L. 397 (2003).
Duress, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MacMillan Press 2002).
Villainy and Felony: A Problem Concerning Criminaliztion, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 451 (2003).
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Comments on Scott Shapiro, in 1 LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 217 (Enrique Villanueva ed., 2002).
Villainy and Felony, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 100, Symposium on "The New Culpability" (2002).
FOUNDATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW, ed. with Stephen Morse and Michael Moore (New York: Oxford University Press 1999).
Preempting oneself: the right and the duty to forestall one's own wrongdoing, 5 LEGAL THEORY 339 (1999).
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ILL-GOTTEN GAINS: EVASION, BLACKMAIL, FRAUD AND KINDRED PUZZLES OF THE LAW (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996).
BAD ACTS AND GUILTY MINDS: CONUNDRUMS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1987).
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