Criminal Law
The Criminalization of Lying:
Under What Circumstances, if any, Should Lies be Made Criminal?
Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2011-06/EN by BRYAN H. DRUZIN This paper argues that lying should be a crime. In doing so we propose the creation of a wholly new category of crime, which we term “egregious lying causing serious harm.” The paper has two broad objectives: the first is to make the case [...]