Essential charity law update.

Distinguishing Government from Charity in Australian Law

Government and charity are in the same business, which is to enable the pursuit of, or even directly to pursue, the common good. This article aims to identify an analytic distinction between government and charity notwithstanding that, being in the same business, they are functionally similar. More precisely, the article aims to identify the analytic distinction between government and charity t...

Resisting the temptation to turn medical recommendations into judicial orders: a reconsideration of court-ordered surgery for pregnant women.

Stem cell research and conditional federal funding: do state laws allowing more extensive research pose a problem for federalism?

“Pennies for Charity”: Why Charities Outsource Fundraising

Charities frequently rely on high-priced professional solicitors but donors seem unaware. To understand this, we propose an agency-based theory of fundraising. We show that trading off its incentive cost, the charity optimally hires a sufficiently "efficient" solicitor and offers him a high percentage of the donations collected, implying a high price of giving. Thus, if, as required by law, don...

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