The White House, Washington, D.C. (Lux Blue/Shutterstock.com).Law and Norms: The Case of Kevin Durant and the NBA
The Paul-Henri Spaak Building, home of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium (Image: artjazz/shutterstock.com).
Conservatives and some other stripes of political thinkers have placed great emphasis on the importance of norms in a society. It is not just the law that matters. It is the norms that operate in conjunction with the law. The same thing, of course, happens in other areas. Recently, the Golden State Warriors became NBA champions and by some measures they may have been the best team of all time. But I regard the team as having been formed in an illegitimate way, through the inappropriate actions of Kevin Durant, even though his actions were perfectly in accord with NBA rules. At…
