Leo Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4373-3234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Judging Game
It is common to criticize judicial opinions for correlating all too obviously with a judge’s politics or for being as unpredictable as a coin toss. We argue that this is precisely what one should expect of a well-functioning legal system with rational, competent, mostly impartial judges. What is called the selection effect, namely, the tendency for cases with a clear outcome to settle out of court, combined with a rational judge’s accommodation o…
The leveling axiom
Circumvention of Law and the Hidden Logic behind It
The law is full of circumvention maneuvers that lawyers try to exploit and authorities try to suppress. We prove formal results showing that all reasonable legal systems are necessarily extremely manipulable by open schemes that require no type of misrepresentation and no violation of the law. In addition, antievasion rules designed to reduce such manipulation can have only limited success and cannot be easily justified as constituting an improve…
Disorder and Discontinuity in Law and Morality
For every legal concept X, there are clear instances exemplifying an X and clear instances exemplifying a non-X. The cases that come before courts are those that seem to lie in between, being neither clearly an X nor clearly a non-X. It is tempting to think that, being in-between, they should receive an in-between treatment, that is, to the extent that they are an X they should be treated as an X. If they are sixty percent toward being an X, they…
Rational Choice versus Lawful Choice
The legal and the economic perspective on a policy proposal are likely to differ far more fundamentally than is commonly appreciated. Economists will impose certain minimal requirements of rationality on the evaluation process, which lawyers routinely violate. Economists will expect the evaluation process to be coherent in the sense of not exhibiting any intransitivity, not violating the Pareto principle, and not being susceptible to framing effe…
About My Father
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Responsibility and Consent
Libertarians believe certain things about rights and responsibilities, about when one person is to be held responsible for invading the rights of another. Libertarians also believe certain things about consent, about when someone should be held to a contract he has entered into. What they don't realize is that the first set of beliefs doesn't mix well with the second set of beliefs—that their intuitions about rights and responsibilities quite sim…
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds
The Sociometry Reader
The Sociometry Reader
A Note on Estimating the Statistical Significance of Mutuality
Measurement of the Tendency Toward Reciprocation of Choice
A New Status Index Derived from Sociometric Analysis
For the purpose of evaluating status in a manner free from the deficiencies of popularity contest procedures, this paper presents a new method of computation which takes into account who chooses as well as how many choose. It is necessary to introduce, in this connection, the concept of attenuation in influence transmitted through intermediaries
Punched Card Technique for the Analysis of Multiple Level Sociometric Data
On the Matric Analysis of Sociometric Data
A Matrix Approach to the Analysis of Sociometric Data
A Matrix Approach to the Analysis of Sociometric Data
The Sociometry Reader
Measurement of the Tendency Toward Reciprocation of Choice
On the Matric Analysis of Sociometric Data
A Note on Estimating the Statistical Significance of Mutuality
Punched Card Technique for the Analysis of Multiple Level Sociometric Data
A Matrix Approach to the Analysis of Sociometric Data
On the Matric Analysis of Sociometric Data
Punched Card Technique for the Analysis of Multiple Level Sociometric Data
A New Status Index Derived from Sociometric Analysis
For the purpose of evaluating status in a manner free from the deficiencies of popularity contest procedures, this paper presents a new method of computation which takes into account who chooses as well as how many choose. It is necessary to introduce, in this connection, the concept of attenuation in influence transmitted through intermediaries
Measurement of the Tendency Toward Reciprocation of Choice
A Note on Estimating the Statistical Significance of Mutuality
The Sociometry Reader
The Sociometry Reader
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds
Responsibility and Consent
Libertarians believe certain things about rights and responsibilities, about when one person is to be held responsible for invading the rights of another. Libertarians also believe certain things about consent, about when someone should be held to a contract he has entered into. What they don't realize is that the first set of beliefs doesn't mix well with the second set of beliefs—that their intuitions about rights and responsibilities quite sim…
About My Father
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rational Choice versus Lawful Choice
The legal and the economic perspective on a policy proposal are likely to differ far more fundamentally than is commonly appreciated. Economists will impose certain minimal requirements of rationality on the evaluation process, which lawyers routinely violate. Economists will expect the evaluation process to be coherent in the sense of not exhibiting any intransitivity, not violating the Pareto principle, and not being susceptible to framing effe…
Disorder and Discontinuity in Law and Morality
For every legal concept X, there are clear instances exemplifying an X and clear instances exemplifying a non-X. The cases that come before courts are those that seem to lie in between, being neither clearly an X nor clearly a non-X. It is tempting to think that, being in-between, they should receive an in-between treatment, that is, to the extent that they are an X they should be treated as an X. If they are sixty percent toward being an X, they…
Circumvention of Law and the Hidden Logic behind It
The law is full of circumvention maneuvers that lawyers try to exploit and authorities try to suppress. We prove formal results showing that all reasonable legal systems are necessarily extremely manipulable by open schemes that require no type of misrepresentation and no violation of the law. In addition, antievasion rules designed to reduce such manipulation can have only limited success and cannot be easily justified as constituting an improve…
The leveling axiom
The Judging Game
It is common to criticize judicial opinions for correlating all too obviously with a judge’s politics or for being as unpredictable as a coin toss. We argue that this is precisely what one should expect of a well-functioning legal system with rational, competent, mostly impartial judges. What is called the selection effect, namely, the tendency for cases with a clear outcome to settle out of court, combined with a rational judge’s accommodation o…
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Game Theory and Voting Systems (3 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (3 works)