Legal System

Julian Bond, a brilliant young leader of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), having been duly elected to the Georgia state legislatu

David H. Mitchell is a young man charged, and now convicted, in Federal Court with failing to report for induction into the armed forces.

Every clause and article of the United States Constitution has been studied, pored over, and interpreted countless times--every one, that is, but t

Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 1985)

Charles Baird discusses the impact of Government regulation on entrepreneurial discovery.

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.