Earlier posts connected the dots from scholars insisting federal courts should defend “liberty of contract,” to small enterprises like hair braiders facing expensive and time-consuming regulations lobbied for by established competitors. Established taxi companies...
Property developers often find it a challenge to assemble the parcels of property they need or want for redevelopment projects. Some homeowners don’t want to sell and move, and others decide they want to...
Should the federal court system defer to state and federal legislatures in the realm of economic legislation and regulations? After all, why not let democratically-elected legislatures propose, debate, and pass or not pass legislation...
Discussing criminal justice reform, CNN Political Advisor Van Jones argues: This is not a left-right issue. At a certain point it becomes a right-wrong issue. If you think about liberty and justice for all,...
Jeff Madrick, a senior fellow with the Century Foundation, in “Our Misplaced Faith in Free Trade,” an October 3, 2014 opinion column for the New York Times notes: Trade is one of the few areas on...
State regulation of hairbraiders was the subject of the Braiding Freedom video in the last post. Continuing the theme of the last few posts on the costs and injustices of overregulation, this post looks again at the...
There are a great many ways Federal courts could be reformed. One major reform articulated, litigated, and advocated over the last twenty years by legal scholars with the Institute for Justice, is to revive the...
For Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade policy topic, U.S. exports of oil, natural gas (LNG), and coal to China and other Asian countries are policies worth investigating. Current federal policies block oil exports...
This Forbes column by John Goodman of the Goodman Institute looks at the ongoing disputes over ride-sharing services like Uber, and at the differences between labor law (actually legislation), and the common law. From “It’s...
On both sides of each good or service traded internationally, people and firms prosper. That is, the buyer of a good or service expects to be better off from the exchange, as does the...
