We Need a Real Flat Tax
The flat tax proportionate to either income or consumption offers the most attractive option, because it allows the government to set the overall levels of revenue as high or as low as seems necessary,...
View ArticleThe Tenth Annual Friedrich A. Von Hayek Lecture
On October 16, 2014, CLI sponsored the Tenth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture, featuring Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School on “Possession as a Natural...
View ArticleThe War Against Airbnb
Why complain about a business that matches many an out-of-town traveler with willing hosts, for a fee that leaves both sides happy, even after Airbnb takes its cut?
View ArticleWhy Everything Elizabeth Warren Told You About Regulation Is Wrong
On Thursday, November 6, 2014, CLI co-sponsored a discussion with Professor Todd Zywicki, Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University, on “Why Everything Elizabeth Warren Told You About...
View ArticleThe Libertarian: “Innovation, Regulation, and Airbnb”
Richard Epstein looks at efforts in New York to tighten regulation on Airbnb, a service that allows individuals to rent out living space to travelers.
View ArticleThe Kidney Crisis
To solve the problem of organ shortages, we must begin by repealing NOTA and implementing a free market for organs.
View ArticleCLI Goes to France
On September 18, 2014 CLI co-director Mario Rizzo of NYU’s economics department was the opening keynote speaker at the European Association for Law and Economics annual conference. CLI director Richard...
View ArticleJudge Sweeney Should Let Discovery Continue On Fannie And Freddie
Judge Margaret Sweeney should reject the government’s motion and allow the discovery to go forward in her court in accordance with her original order. The arguments here go both to matters of procedure...
View ArticleObama’s Low Midterm Grade
With the elections upon us, the President’s judicial and political accomplishments are nothing to write home about.
View ArticleUpcoming Event: Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property
On November 14th and 15th, CLI will host a symposium on property rights, Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property. This symposium brings together leading scholars from fields in law...
View ArticleRepublicans Won. Now What?
In the aftermath of the decisive Republican sweep of the midterm elections, the question on everyone’s mind is how the Republicans will govern now that they control the Senate and have a larger cushion...
View ArticleHands Off the Web
This past week, we witnessed the occurrence of two events with the capacity to reshape the Internet for the worst. First, the White House offered a full-throated endorsement “for the strongest possible...
View ArticleThe Libertarian Podcast – “Net Neutrality and the FCC”
Richard Epstein critiques President Obama’s call for net neutrality regulations and explains how to preserve online innovation.
View ArticleObama’s Amnesty Problem
On Thursday November 20, President Obama delivered a controversial address to the nation on the contentious subject of immigration. In it, he outlined his plan to grant amnesty to some 3.5 million...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Bailouts: AIG, Fannie and Freddie and Beyond
It has been some time since my last Forbes column on Fannie and Freddie. After eight weeks in Court, it appears as though the AIG trial, in which former AIG CEO Maurice (“Hank”) Greenberg is mounting a...
View ArticleFerguson and the Rule of Law
As most people by now know, on August 9 of this year, 18 year-old Michael Brown, a black man, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a 28 year-old white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. On November...
View ArticleThe Way Forward On Police Reform
For the past two years, I have taught a course in criminal procedure at the University of Chicago Law School. A key component of that course dealt with police behavior leading up to an arrest. In the...
View ArticleWater, Water Everywhere (Including 60 Minutes)
If wars in the 21st century will be fought over water, as this 60 Minutes segment begins, then Justice Mahlon Pitney is the Sun Tzu of the upcoming conflict. In his 1909 opinion in Meeker v. East...
View ArticleMaking Sense of The Torture Report
Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released to great fanfare, an exhaustive report, prepared solely by the Democratic members of her Committee, on...
View ArticleThe Problem with “Equal Pay”
An event dubbed Equal Pay Day is meant to draw attention to how a woman who works full time earns “77 cents for every dollar a man earns,” as President Obama has put it. Though a detailed analysis...
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