SIMPLE RULES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD - EPSTEIN,R

In Simple Rules for a Complex World, Richard Epstein clair?ls to be fo cusing on legal simplicity, and on the link between legal simplicity a nd a legal system less intrusive on individual liberty. It turns out, however, that Epstein's conception of simplicity is itself soaked with the substantive idea of individual liberty. The consequences of this are that the claim that legal simplicity brings individual liberty (an d legal minimalism) becomes true by definition, and that Epstein avoid s taking on the important and interesting questions of whether and whe n legal simplicity, more conventionally understood, produces less lega l instrusiveness and thus, under Epstein's own conception, more libert y.