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The Supreme Court Isn’t Broken | Discourse
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Trading with the Dead
Late medieval Englishmen provided for their wellbeing in the hereafter by purchasing intercession for their souls. They traded
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Legal Disputes
While going to trial is always an option for settling a legal dispute, settlement prior to trial is the more common response
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The Growing Legal Controversy About Drone Trespass
Brent Skorup suggests that state legislatures establish drone easements above public roads. Read more at the Regulatory
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The Right to... WERK
Adam Thierer joins other experts on the podcast Dissed to discuss the oft-overlooked constitutional right to earn a living
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'CRA-ing' the OCC Is a Terrible Idea
CRA: Congressional Review Act. OCC: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Read more at The Hill.
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Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock (1922–2014) took only one academic degree, a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1947. He leveraged that
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POLICY SPOTLIGHT: Antitrust Policy and the Consumer Welfare Standard
In this Policy Spotlight series, Mercatus scholars provide a high-level overview of their positions on key issues facing our
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The New Madison Approach and the Harmonization of Antitrust and Patent Law
James Madison favored strong patent laws, and policymakers today can still learn from him as they craft antitrust policy. Read
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Escaping the long arm of the law?
This article studies the unintended consequences of failure‐to‐pay (FTP) drivers' license suspensions. Unlike other traffic
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Soft Law in U.S. ICT Sectors: Four Case Studies
Traditional hard law tools and processes are struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation in many emerging
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Not His Business
Trump’s efforts to force the sale of TikTok erode the rule of law and hurt American competitiveness. Read more at Discourse.
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Ideas of India: Not Always in the Public Interest
Shruti Rajagopalan talks with Anuj Bhuwania about public interest litigation and the Indian judicial system. Read the transcript
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The Erosion of Publisher Liability in American Law, Section 230, and the Future of Online Curation
As internet businesses started to emerge in the 1990s, online content distributors were taken to court for material they
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Kisor and the Future of Agency Deference
Yesterday, the Supreme Court in Kisor v. Wilkie declined to overrule the doctrine of Auer deference in a narrow 5-4 decision

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Law and Macroeconomics
David Beckworth: Our guest today is Yair Listokin. Yair is a professor of law at Yale Law School, and is the author of a new

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How to Measure Morality, Economics, and Growth with Tyler Cowen, Steven Pearlstein, and Angel Cabrera
Last week, the George Mason University (GMU) Economics Society hosted Mercatus Center Faculty Director Tyler Cowen and Professor

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Reassessing the Fair Tax
In the United States, debates over the optimal tax base have raged since the implementation of the income tax in 1913. Recently
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Institutions Matter: First Amendment vs. The French Laïcité
[The laïcité] the opposite of the First Amendment in that, rather than tolerating everyone’s religion and keeping the government at bay, it allows the state to ban any sign of religion in public spaces. It claims to be about tolerance but it is, in fact, the opposite of it.
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Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance
The central argument of this volume is that institutions of liberal learning are critical to a developing and flourishing civil society.
