Dec 3, 2012

Why the Common Law in America?

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Filed Under: Common Law, Constitutionalism, Hadley Arkes, James Stoner, John McGinnis, Richard Reinsch

The next Liberty Forum is now available. Featured this month are tremendous essays from James Stoner, Hadley Arkes, and John McGinnis on the relationship between the unwritten common law and the written Constitution. To put it in Stoner’s terms: …

Nov 22, 2012

Thanksgiving Roundup

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Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, Arnold kling, Garett Jones, George Washington, Hadley Arkes, Proclamation for Thanksgiving, Richard Reinsch

A bondholder Thanksgiving: Garett Jones at Econ Log asks “When the federal government bought shares in the biggest banks, who benefited most: Shareholders or bondholders? According to co-blogger Luigi Zingales and U Chicago professor Pietro Veronesi, the answer is clear:

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Oct 26, 2012

Friday Roundup: October 26th

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Filed Under: Amity Shlaes, Antonin Scalia, Calvin Coolidge, Hadley Arkes, Liberty Fund, Reading the Law, Religious Liberty, Richard Reinsch, Romney Tax Plan

The cherry-picking Bruce Bartlett: Not that Law and Liberty is taking sides in the upcoming presidential election but bad analysis is bad analysis. David Henderson at Econ Log debunks Bartlett’s takedown of the Romney tax plan in two posts: See

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Sep 28, 2012

Friday Roundup, September 28th

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Filed Under: David Skeel, Hadley Arkes, Richard Fisher, Richard Hynes, Richard Reinsch, Ryszard Legutko, Ted Frank, When States Go Broke

Garett Jones at Econ Log matches unemployment benefits with a timeless beer song: 99 weeks of unemployment benefits on the wall, you take one down, spread it around, and it raises unemployment by how much?

Ted Frank directs our attention

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May 11, 2012

The Weekend Roundup

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Filed Under: Eric Kaufmann, Eugene Volokh, Hadley Arkes, John Murray, Jordan Ballor, Lafler v. Cooper, Point of Law, Rob Cordray, Vanderbilt religious student group policy

If a criminal defendant is informed by his defense counsel to reject a plea-bargain and go to trial under the advice that the facts giving rise to the charges wouldn’t support the length of the prison term offered in the

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