In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence"), or simply in flagrante, a legal term, indicates that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial "caught " or "caught rapid" are English equivalents. The phrase combines the present active participle "flagrāns" (flaming or blazing) with the noun "dēlictum" (offence, misdeed, or crime). In this term the Latin preposition "in", not indicating motion, takes the ablative. The closest literal translation would be "in blazing offence", where "blazing" is a metaphor for vigorous, highly visible action. In Japan, the phrase's translation, "Genkōhan"
What Should Legal Analysis Become? legal institutions rest," one that may "facilitate transforming those institutions into more emancipatory forms." Sossin notes that Unger would add "prophecy" and "vision" to the pursuits of critical theory. Sossin concludes that ""What Should Legal Analysis Become?" is in many ways an illustration of Unger practicing what he preaches—reinventing and recombining ideas and elements of his previous thought into a reinvigorated critique. His analysis never fails to engage, though ... it does leave important questions unanswered." Kar, Robin Bradley. "Legal Analysis and the Perversions of Theory (review of "What Should Legal Analysis Become?"), 106 Yale Law Journal 2685 (1997) Sossin,