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...
The Hill, June 19, 2015, reports “Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers.” The secretive federal court that oversees the nation’s spies is laying the groundwork for temporarily reauthorizing the National Security Agency’s...
The Hill, June 19, 2015, reports “Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers.” The secretive federal court that oversees the nation’s spies is laying the groundwork for temporarily reauthorizing the National Security Agency’s...
Manufacturing associations such as the National Association of Manufacturing (NAM) have been wary or hostile to imports from foreign manufacturers. But manufacturers and associations recognize that for U.S. firms to compete in world markets,...
Previous posts discussed books and studies on the historical and current debate over liberty of contract. If Uber drivers contract with Uber and with Uber customers to give people rides, should city regulators be...
On the Liberty Fund’s Library of Law and Liberty blog, July 9, 2015, law professor Kurt Lash offers a two-part critical review of Damon Root’s Overruled (discussed in earlier post). Lash gives this introduction...
