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The Law of Unintended Consequences
Southern Illinois Law Journal
  • Margaret Howard, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Disciplines
Abstract

My purpose is to talk about the 2005 Amendments and how things are going with the new provisions. But where do you start, with a bad law? We could start with the enactment process, but that's old news now. And besides,you've already heard the line: "Some members of Congress could not be bought; for everyone else there was MasterCard." We could talk about the policy choices, and the 2005 Amendments clearly represent a shift in that respect--perhaps in the category of "seismic" or "cataclysmic."

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Citation Information
Margaret Howard, The Law of Unintended Consequences, 31 S. Ill. U. L.J. 451 (2007).