Common folk views of law overstate its certainty and finality

Evidence

Misconceptions about law and the courts, as much as lack of information, prevent a full understanding of the role of courts in the United States. Often these misconceptions are half-truths, capturing part—but only part—of the reality of law and courts. Two common misconceptions are that law is a body of established rules that govern behavior and that judicial decisions on important policy issues resolve those issues. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 186

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: interrogating ‘law is rules’ folk theory as itself a jurisprudential position worth dismantling.
• XREF: connects to: Law and courts are commonly misunderstood through two half-true misconceptions. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 181; Most people conform to law and even wrongdoers crave legal certainty — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 182; Most litigation arises because the meaning of law is uncertain — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 195