For many decades the word "regulation" has been a bogeyman concept evoking images of unproductive and wasteful government bureaucracy. With the recent financial crisis, this bogeyman image of regulation has…
When regulators make decisions in the face of uncertainty, what gives legitimacy to their decisions? While trustworthy regulators may enhance social resilience, uncertainty erodes public trust and alienates citizens. This…
In The Problem of Social Cost, Ronald Coase was highly critical of the work of Cambridge University Economics Professor Arthur Cecil Pigou, presenting him as a radical government interventionist. In…
This Article explores three principal contributing factors and the lessons associated with each that make up this pathology of the economic crisis. The powerful lessons from this pathology apply with…
Mario J. Rizzo & Douglas Glen Whitman
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The "new paternalism" claims that careful policy interventions can help people make better decisions in terms of their own welfare, with only mild or nonexistent infringement of personal autonomy and…
This Note explores the Fourth Amendment implications of community urinalysis technology. It argues that the testing of a home's wastewater constitutes a search requiring a warrant. Because plenty of doctrinal…
Civil asset forfeiture laws provide law enforcement agencies with the power to seize property and money connected to illegal activity. The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 attempted to…
In Seisinger v. Siebel, the Arizona Supreme Court held in a 4-1 decision that Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) section 12-2604(A), governing proof of the standard of care in medical malpractice…
In Cain v. Horne, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously held that school-voucher programs providing state funding for the private education of disabled and foster children violated the Arizona Constitution. Although…