The Law of Unintended Consequences

Authors

Margaret Howard, Washington and Lee University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Southern Illinois Law Journal

Publication Date

2007

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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Recommended Citation

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