Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1993
ISSN
0041-9907
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Blackmail commentary continues to proliferate. One purpose of this paper is to show what we agree on. Its primary tool will be to define what I call the "central case" of blackmail literature, and to supply the connecting links that will allow us to see how various normative theories converge in condemning central case blackmail. Admittedly, the law criminalizes more than my central case. But once we recognize that the central case is neither puzzling nor paradoxical, it may be easier to handle the border cases that arise.
Recommended Citation
Wendy J. Gordon,
Truth and Consequences: The Force of Blackmail's Central Case
,
in
141
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
1741
(1993).
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