GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND POOR LAW REFORM

General Practitioners are poor at identifying the eating disorders

The very first thing I should say is that I think that General Practitioners (GPs, or family physicians, in case the term baffles) are a fine bunch of people, as a whole. This is the same thing that I would say about most groups of healthcare workers (including my own profession). The work that GPs do is demanding and takes a much broader knowledge and skills base than most professionals will e...

Euthanasia and law reform.

In 1983, the Law Reform Commission of Canada published its Report on Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment,1 following its Working Paper2 and Study Paper3 in the Protection of Life series. The Report is interesting more for its approach than for its recommendations. A close examination of it reveals some fascinating parallels between what I have called "legal law reform", 4 whic...

Labor Law and Its Reform

Metapolitics and Corporate Law Reform

Serious Tort Law Reform

Tort law is a form of collective intervention into social and economic affairs that carries with it substantial costs, both public and private. These costs include higher prices for goods and services, higher taxes, and the socially undesirable consequences that tort law has on people's behavior such as the failure of companies to develop and introduce products the public wants, the wasteful an...