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? What Should Legal Analysis Become? What Should Legal Analysis Become? is a book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. First published in 1996, the book germinated from lectures Unger gave at Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and the London School of Economics. In the book, Unger argues that in order to transform society to be more radically democratic, it is necessary to penetrate the specialized professions so that we can talk about, and imagine, institutions effectively. Unger focuses on the legal profession in this book, setting forth a vision of law as "institutional imagination." He presents a program