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PREEMPTING ONESELF:

The Right and the Duty to Forestall One’s Own Wrongdoing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Leo Katz
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Extract

The best test of whether an intellectual problem is genuinely worthwhile is whether there exists a Jewish joke on point. By that quite exacting standard, the problem of preemptive action is certainly an important one. To be sure, the joke that comes to mind is not especially funny, but that is not what counts. It is the existence of the joke, not its funniness, that matters.

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Research Article
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Legal Theory , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 339 - 362
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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