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This book provides an entertaining and thought-provoking examination of private legal systems-privately created, norm-enforcing arrangements. Beyond selfishness and altruism, humans seem to be hard-coded to endorse justice and punish injustice. Based on a rich collection of cases in which people living outside the reach of the law created and enforced norms, the Robinsons examine human instincts toward social order and suggest how formal legal systems can embrace those instincts. -- Amitai Aviram, professor, University of Illinois College of Law

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Paul H. Robinson, is Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at U. Pennsylvania, and one of the leading criminal law scholars in the world. A prolific writer and lecturer, Robinson has published articles in virtually all of the top law reviews, lectured in 84 cities in 34 states and 25 countries, and had his writings appear in 13 languages. A former federal prosecutor and counsel for the US Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, he was the lone dissenter when the US Sentencing Commission promulgated the current federal sentencing guidelines. He is the lead editor of Criminal Law Conversations, a debate involving more than 100 scholars from around the world, and is the author of Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert; Distributive Principles of Criminal Law; and Structure and Function in Criminal Law. Robinson recently completed two criminal code reform projects in the United States and the first modern Islamic penal code under the auspices of the U.N. Development Program. He also writes for general audiences, including popular books such as Would You Convict? and Law without Justice. Sarah M. Robinson is a former sergeant in the United States Army, with a graduate degree in education, who has worked as a social worker. She now works as a book researcher and author.

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