Legal System

Was Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase an early example of presidential malfeasance?

In spite of stringent gun-control measures, Brazil's homicide rates are among the worst in the world. Now there's a movement to let more Brazilians defend themselves with private gun ownership.

Homicide rates in the US remain well below where they were 25 years ago, and stubbornly high homicide rates are a regional — and not a national — problem.

The Court’s betrayal of its constitutional role has vastly increased the stakes for the current and any future Justice nomination.

While the Second Amendment is a formidable barrier, experience suggests a mixture of bureaucratic regulation and court rulings could significantly empower the gun-control lobby.

Böhm-Bawerk unerringly centered his analysis on basic problems in the theory of economic goods. It constitutes a dazzling achievement.

In the early years of the United States, legal systems were far more localized and flexible. But elites preferred consistency over flexibility, and the rich could afford the more bureaucratic legal institutions that ordinary people could not. 

Proponents claim that if the government just "cracks down" even harder, the drug problem will be solved. The reality in Mexico and the Philippines shows how wrong this idea is.

How the legal doctrine of prosecutorial immunity creates a “lemons” problem in criminal courts through moral hazard.

Judge Andrew Napolitiano gives a rousing talk at Mises University on the Declaration's natural law tradition.