Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674047311 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Jacobs Scholar at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Green is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan L. Stuart P
Unreflective of community attitudes toward theft, which favor gradations in blameworthiness according to what is stolen and under what circumstances, and uninfluenced by advancements in criminal law theory, theft law cries out for another reformationand soon.. In Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, Stuart Green assesses our current legal framework at a time when our economy increasingly commodifies intangibles and when the means of committing theft and fraud grow ever more sophisticated. Was it theft for the editor of a technology blog to buy a prototype iPhone he allegedly knew had been lost by an Apple engineer in a Silicon Valley bar? Was it theft for doctors to use a patient’s tissue without permission in order to harvest a valuable cell line? For an Internet activist to publish tens of thousands of State Department documents on his Web site?In this full-
Brilliant! 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle presents a brilliant philosophical analysis of theft. Unlike so many books on legal topics, this one is not beyond the reach of the non-lawyer. Professor Green should be congratulated on bringing such clarity and depth of in
This book is at once a comprehensive treatise, a pedagogic tool, and a provocative argument of both moral philosophy and social policy. Here he deals specifically with theft, its wrongfulness and its normative-conceptual boundaries. "Drawing on a plethora of real-world examples--from the internet user who accesses a store's wireless network from his car, to the Florida man who falsely asserted that he had won the Medal of Honor, to Mark Zuckerberg's alleged theft of his classmates' social networking website idea Green demonstrates how ch