Barak, Medina; Shlomo, Naeh; Uzi, Segal - In: Review of Law & Economics 9 (2013) 1, pp. 73-96
Transitivity is a fundamental requirement for consistency. Legal systems, especially when composed over time and by different agencies, may encounter non-transitive cycles, in which by one rule the law prefers one outcome a over another outcome b, by another rule b trumps some third result c,...