by Benjamin Lepak | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog
When the nine lawyers on the Oklahoma Supreme Court meet to hear a case, no legislation is safe. That’s because the justices on the Supreme Court regularly act as though they are lawmakers instead of judges. My most recent paper, Legislators in Black Robes:...
by Byron Schlomach | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
It’s not uncommon to hear people declare health care a fundamental human right. At least two candidates for U.S. President, Sanders and Warren, would create the obligation for us all to provide health care for everyone through “Medicare for all.” The most common...
by Luke Tucker | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog
In a way, America at least partly owes its independence to the conviction that granting exclusive market privileges is an illegitimate function of government. In a free country, no-one has an exclusive right to a market over anyone else. Yet, two and a half centuries...
by Tyler Williamson | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog
The state of Oklahoma selects supreme court justices using a system known as the Missouri Plan, which is a form of merit selection. Advocates paint a rosy picture of the plan, claiming that it is a more sophisticated system than the federal model or the election model...
by Mike Davis | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog
In order to get a mortgage loan, you need title insurance. This protects both the buyer and the lender against clouded title – claims by people other than the seller that they own part or all of the property. Typically title insurers do some level of research on...
by Benjamin Lepak | Jul 31, 2019 | Blog
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations A legislator I know once told me...
