Add to ORKGThat ignorance of the law is no excuse is a maxim that most school children can recite. Wide awareness of the maxim (without a lawyer\u27s comprehension of its subtleties) encourages citizens to make an effort to know laws which might regulate their conduct. Perversely, the crimes of the Internal Revenue Code permit ignorance of their strictures as a defense. If voluntary compliance is the taxation system\u27s goal, the ultimate sanctions should be structured to promote investigation of the law and reliance on competent advisors
In this chapter, I examine the forms of ignorance that defeat and sometimes create legal liability. ...
The willful ignorance doctrine says defendants should sometimes be treated as if they know what they...
One of the main factors affecting criminal culpability is mens rea and one important element of mens...
Ignorance of the law is no excuse is a well-known saying regarding criminal law. Yet the 1991 Supre...
This article explores Cheek v United States, ___ US ___, 111 S Ct 604 (1991), which reaffirmed that ...
Are thousands of North Carolinians violating federal criminal law every day without knowing it even ...
In this paper I will discuss two aspects of ignorance of the law: ignorance of illegality (including...
This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't. The willful ignorance d...
The proliferation of criminal laws in different legal systems has made legal practitioners and schola...
In four empirical studies, we showed that laypeople apply the ignorance of the law defense different...
The general rule in criminal proceedings is that ignorance of the law or a misunderstanding of the a...
Ignorantia legis non excusat-ignorance of the law does not excuse-is a centuries-old criminal law ma...
'Ignorance of the law is no defence,' so we are told from an early stage in our legal studies. Or, t...
The article presents information on the criminal tax cases and the claims of ignorance of relevant l...
This Article investigates the limits of the willful ignorance doctrine as employed in federal crimi...
In this chapter, I examine the forms of ignorance that defeat and sometimes create legal liability. ...
The willful ignorance doctrine says defendants should sometimes be treated as if they know what they...
One of the main factors affecting criminal culpability is mens rea and one important element of mens...
Ignorance of the law is no excuse is a well-known saying regarding criminal law. Yet the 1991 Supre...
This article explores Cheek v United States, ___ US ___, 111 S Ct 604 (1991), which reaffirmed that ...
Are thousands of North Carolinians violating federal criminal law every day without knowing it even ...
In this paper I will discuss two aspects of ignorance of the law: ignorance of illegality (including...
This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't. The willful ignorance d...
The proliferation of criminal laws in different legal systems has made legal practitioners and schola...
In four empirical studies, we showed that laypeople apply the ignorance of the law defense different...
The general rule in criminal proceedings is that ignorance of the law or a misunderstanding of the a...
Ignorantia legis non excusat-ignorance of the law does not excuse-is a centuries-old criminal law ma...
'Ignorance of the law is no defence,' so we are told from an early stage in our legal studies. Or, t...
The article presents information on the criminal tax cases and the claims of ignorance of relevant l...
This Article investigates the limits of the willful ignorance doctrine as employed in federal crimi...
In this chapter, I examine the forms of ignorance that defeat and sometimes create legal liability. ...
The willful ignorance doctrine says defendants should sometimes be treated as if they know what they...
One of the main factors affecting criminal culpability is mens rea and one important element of mens...