Talks on Stoa Labor and Penal Reform Topics
Overview presentations with notes on two of the Stoa policy topics. Stoa 2020 Penal Reform Topic Stoa2020: Federal Labor Law Reform
Category: Federal Court System Reform
Notes on Reforming Federal Labor Law
Proposed Stoa policy resolution for the coming year: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its labor law. An Ethos Debate post, “The Ethos Guide to the 2017-2018 Stoa Policy Resolutions,” (April...
Clearer Thinking on Corporations and Federal Regulations
In a thoughtful recent debate over reforming the federal court system, students on both sides struggled to address how best to protect people from and “punish” large corporations. The negative explained that without the...
Federal Courts, Commerce, and Regulation
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – The Wealth of...
Time to Rethink the Chevron Doctrine
Dan Alban of the Institute for Justice, spoke at the recent Freedom Seminar in Portland, Oregon. Dan debated in high school and at Berry College, so I asked about the NCFCA federal court system...
Overcriminalization: Fish Shredding and “Governing Through Crime”
That same year heavily-armed police raided barber shops around Orlando, Florida; they said they were hunting for guns and drugs but ended up arresting 34 people for “barbering without a licence.” (“Cops or Soldiers,”...
Debate over Criminal Justice Delusions
Heather Mac Donald with an oped in the Wall Street Journal drawn from her longer City Journal article, “The Decriminalization Delusion,” joins the criminal justice reform debate with guns blazing. Mac Donald blasts criminal...
Let Low-Income People in Prisons and Schools Work
Rather than blame politicians for creating, and unions for expanding, restrictive labor regulations, it makes sense to focus on economic misunderstandings. People seem to think jobs are somehow limited and fixed by forces beyond...
Miscounted, Mismeasured Fish? That’s a Federal Crime with Jail Time
Of the tens of thousands of regulations that restrict entrepreneurs trying to work each day or build new enterprises in farming, dairy, street-vending, home-baking, political groups most are local and state problems of local and...
Federal Courts Uber, Lyft, and Rent-Seeking in the U.S. (and Middle East)
Debate topics change from year to year, but economic principles stay the same. Political economy looks at the intersection of politics and economics, and every debate resolution has such an intersection. Established companies and...