Legal System

To Serve and Protect is a breath of fresh air in the fog of mainstream recommendations concerning security, crime, and punishment. In the mainstream literature, liberals typically regard the offender as the victim of an egoistic society and conservatives typically say that the only way to reduce crime is to increase the severity of punishment. Benson brilliantly shows that the solution to the problem of criminal justice does not rest with increasing law-enforcement budgets or imposing harsher punishments, but with privatization.

The Eastern European countries have been going through a transition phase since the liberalization of their economies with the collapse of communist regimes in the early 1990s.

Economic analysis can be applied to the phenomenon of crime. In the present paper, we will deal with an approach to the economics of crime that is built on the foundations of neoclassical welfare theory.

Patents have a long history as a proxy for inventive activity.  Although these data lost ground in the early 1960s to other measures of technical innovation, they have once again become fashionable in the last decade. 

In the context of legal analysis, one important praxeological doctrine is the distinction between action and mere behavior. The difference between action and behavior boils down to intent. 

This monograph by Professor Michael Krauss of the George Mason University School of Law is a well-written and accessible critique of the recent government lawsuits against the tobacco and firearms industries.

In Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner examines how the United States moved from the ad coelom rule

The praxeological method is an efficacious way to investigate the fundamental theoretical questions at the heart of any study of human endeavor. 

The Structure of Liberty is an important new work by one of libertarianism's most significant and thoughtful legal scholars.  Its primary substantive deficiency is its over-reliance on the Hayekian knowledge paradigm

The present number of the QJAE features the proceedings of a symposium held on March 29–30, 2001 at the Mises Institute. The theme “Austrian Law and Economics: