by Benjamin Lepak | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
Would we grant Devon Energy a government-enforced veto over whether its competitors should be issued drilling permits? Would we think it acceptable for the government to require new drug applicants to first obtain approval from Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson before...
by Benjamin Lepak | Mar 25, 2020 | Legal, Research
Author Benjamin M. Lepak Abstract Ben Lepak argues that Oklahoma should drop the requirement that one must have attended an ABA-accredited law school in order to sit for the bar exam and that the exam should be reformed to make it more relevant to the actual practice...
by Mike Davis | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
1889 Institute takes no position on whether any or all of these measures are warranted or necessary, or whether their economic fallout would inflict more human suffering than they prevent. We are simply evaluating whether they are legal. With the unprecedented (in...
by Mike Davis | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog
Great care must be taken in repealing occupational licensing laws. No, not care in which licensing regimes are repealed or how quickly we are rid of them. They can all go, post haste (yes, that includes doctors and lawyers). Licensing hurts the economy to the tune of...
by Benjamin Lepak | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog
“The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in...
