Ignorantia juris non excusat. ('Ignorance of the law is no excuse.')

Who signed you up? When did the starter pistol fire? What code words will allies identify themselves by? Where is the finishing line?

At times, exhilarating. At times, exasperating. This is the game of life. As players progress through the arena, their paths diverge. Along these different paths are different clues about the reality of the game universe and different survival tips. Potters witness one set gradually take shape at their wheels; psychologists slowly piece together another from the depths of the human psyche. Possibly, no set is complete yet inability to access other perspectives does not exempt one from challenges they address or present. Life might be less of an anxiety-ridden mystery if we could trade insights, while keeping in mind that tools and mental aids developed for one domain might not be fully suitable in their unmodified forms in another domain.

Through its careful distillation of cognitively stimulating and nifty jurisprudential concepts that neatly organize our world and messy lives, Lawganism helps readers superimpose an outline of another model of the universe, constructed by sharp legal minds over the decades, onto their existing ones, without the troubling risks of a law school debt. Wherever questions of behavioural modulation and right and wrong arise, variants of these concepts hold promises and perils, even away from the ambit of law. Since the ramifications for people on the receiving end are often obvious, Lawganism tinkers with cognitive landscapes further by putting readers in the driver's seat for the main part. From this relatively unintuitive viewpoint for many, each of us may wind up discerning how best to persuade power holders in our corporate and social circles to work for common benefit and how influential, kind and fallible we can be with the power we do hold.

Note that, in the legal context at least, the strategies listed on this website have not necessarily been forged consciously in any particular instance or on a systems level, as academic Meir Dan-Cohen suggested for the case of one of them, acoustic separation.^*1 In addition, legal arrangements and mechanisms vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and with time. The analyses here work from a common law perspective. Information on this website should not be used as substitute for legal advice on any subject matter. Read also the copyright notice at the bottom of the page.

^{*1. Meir Dan-Cohen, 'Decisions Rules and Conduct Rules: On Acoustic Separation in Criminal Law' (1984) 97 Harv L Rev 625, 635-36.}

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