Legal System

Only one company is still writing workman's comp policies for the NFL. Insurers fear Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) may be the new asbestos, with lawsuits extending into the distant future.

Austrian economics can shed new light on questions that scholars in other fields are interested in answering, questions that mainstream law and economics scholars might  refrain from tackling because they cannot be addressed using their preferred methodology.

When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend in the face of more sexual harassment claims.

When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend in the face of more sexual harassment claims.

Contrary to myth, Latin America has relatively few civilian-owned guns — either legal or illegal. But this hasn't prevented enduring high rates of violent crime.

Michael Boldin and Jeff Deist discuss the realities behind breaking up the US politically.

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.

With far too much time and money on their hands, federal prosecutors have now turned private basketball agreements into a matter for federal criminal prosecution.

Representation is a fig leaf that is insufficient to cover the brutal fact that even in our sophisticated modern states, some rule and others are ruled.

It is important to change our political culture, which treats "democracy," or the "right" to vote, as the supreme political good.