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Leo Katz

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Leo Katz

Frank Carano Professor of Law

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 (Chicago, 1987); Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud and Kindred Puzzles of the Law (Chicago, 1996); and Why the Law Is So Perverse (Chicago, 2011), 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).

Education

  • JDUniversity of Chicago1982
  • MA (economics)University of Chicago1982
  • BAUniversity of Chicago1979

Courses Taught

  • Criminal Law| Contracts| Corporations| Law and Morality

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The Inevitability and Ubiquity of Cycling in All Feasible Legal Regimes: A Formal Proof, 46 J. LEGAL STUD. 237 (2017) (with Alvaro Sandroni).

Do We Need a Doctrine of Complicity?, in LEGAL, MORAL, AND METAPHYSICAL TRUTHS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICHAEL S. MOORE (Kimberly Kessler Ferzan & Stephen J. Morse eds., Oxford 2016).

Nine Takes on Indeterminacy, with Special Emphasis on the Criminal Law, 163 U. PA. L. REV. 1945 (2015).

WHY THE LAW IS SO PERVERSE (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011).

The Problem with Consenting to Insider Trading, 69 U. MIAMI L. REV. 827 (2015).

A Theory of Loopholes, 39 J. LEGAL STUD. 1 (2010).