Legal System

A law school buddy emailed me some comments about some recent developments in eminent domain law, e.g.

Richard Posner here answers, at least in one respect, a question that has long puzzled his critics. Posner again and again declares himself a legal pragmatist.

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.  

Let us grant that patents encourage innovation; Stephan Kinsella still wants to know: at what cost?

Presented as part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 3 March 2005.

Writes George Reisman: there is still time to abort this highly destructive program, which constitutes the largest increase in the welfare-state functions of our government since the administration of Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s.

For the past few weeks, William Anderson has been following the Richard Scrushy trial in Birmingham, Alabama.

In a true free-market secured to private property rights, writes Ninos Malek, employers can determine employee qualifications on any grounds whatsoever.

European antitrust regulators have taken the worst of American antitrust "analysis," argues DT Armentano, and made it even worse.

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.