In the Name of Justice

Leading experts reexamine the classic article “The Aims of the Criminal Law” by Henry M. Hart

ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

JAMES B. JACOBS

JUDGE ALEX KOZINSKI

JUSTICE STEPHEN J. MARKMAN

JUDGE RICHARD A. POSNER

JUSTICE RICHARD B. SANDERS

HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE

JAMES Q. WILSON

Timothy Lynch is director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and has become a leading voice in the battle for civil liberties and the Bill of Rights. Lynch has published articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Law Journal, and he has appeared on PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, among other venues.

“This 50th anniversary reexamination of Hart’s influential theory of the criminal law should interest both practicing attorney and any layman stupefied by the changes in both law and society going on around us. While the book is worth its price just for making Hart’s long‐​ago memo accessible to a new generation of readers, its focus is a collection of essays. The purpose of the reconsideration acknowledges that the theoretical underpinnings of criminal law have changed so dramatically‐ alarmingly, even‐​that some notice should be taken. Read this book. Then think about it.”
—James Srodes, The American Spectator