Showing posts with label non-objective law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-objective law. Show all posts

Monday, June 24, 2013

The Sovietization of Federal Law

“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”

That paean to non-objective law is attributed to Lavrenti Beria, Joseph Stalin’s chief of secret police. It is cited by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz in his foreword to Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, by Harvey Silverglate (p. xxxvi).