Legal Knowledge, Belief, and Aspiration

Arden Rowell. Do people know the law? On the one hand, it is a brocard, sometimes traced to Aristotle, that nemo censetur legem ignorare: “nobody is thought to be ignorant of the law.” The same intuition underlies the classic maxim…
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Assumption of Flood Risk

Alexander B. Lemann. After spending four days dumping an unprecedented quantity of water on the Houston area, Hurricane Harvey finally slid off the coast to the south, leaving the city to begin the gradual process of wringing itself out and…
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