Participation, Public Law, and Venue Reform

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...

Investigating the Validity of Wagner's Law and Performance-Based Budget Reform in Public Expenditure of Selected Asian Countries

Wagner's law indicates a positive long-run equilibrium relationship between per capita income growth and the relative size of the public sector. Accordingly, the main purpose of this article is to verify Wagner's theory and the law on operational budgeting reforms on public spending and educational, health, and military priorities. To meet these ends, the data of 13 Asian selected countries dur...

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...