Law in Contemporary Society

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  again: it was built to fail. The prison that encloses the poor is built to succeed forever.
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Law as a Labyrinth What makes law a labyrinth? It is near

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Law as a Labyrinth

What makes law a labyrinth? It is near impossible for laymen to access and make sense of vast bodies of
 statutes, ordinances, and regulations without legal assistance. The adverse social impact of the difficulty of understanding the law is aggravated by the rule of ignorantia juris non excusat. This legal principle that ignorance of the law does not excuse liability for violating it may have made some sense in the past when almost all laws
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When was there a time that there was no tax law, or that ignorance of tax law consisted

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