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Thursday, October 04, 2007
Can public policy support the institution of friendship?
I'm happy to announce that Policy Review has just published my "Friends & the Law: Can Public Policy Support the Institution of Friendship?" As you might imagine, this essay is a "popularized" and unfootnoted attempt to rehearse arguments I have tried to make in "Friendship & the Law" and (with Dan Markel and Jen Collins) in "Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties." So if you have found yourself unable to slug through the hard-core academic versions of these arguments, you might just enjoy the exposure in this easily-digestible form. But even for the six of you that have made your way through the academic versions, I have tried to supplement some of my thinking in this later essay.
Posted by Ethan Leib on October 4, 2007 at 06:59 PM in Article Spotlight | Permalink
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Looks very interesting. Here's a take on how informal norms shape the "break-up" of friendships:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/27/AR2007092701562.html
Posted by: FrankP | Oct 4, 2007 8:39:29 PM
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