Any Which Way but Loose: Interpretive Strategies and Attitudes Toward Violence in the Evolution of the Anglo-American “Retreat Rule”

Authors

Garrett Epps

Abstract

The doctrine of self-defense and the retreat rule are discussed. Questions of justification and excuse are explored.

Citation

Garrett Epps, Any Which Way but Loose: Interpretive Strategies and Attitudes Toward Violence in the Evolution of the Anglo-American “Retreat Rule”, 55 Law and Contemporary Problems 303-331 (Winter 1992)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol55/iss1/16