Law and Civil Liberties: Studies

“The Affirmative Action Myth,”

By Marie Gryphon. Policy Analysis No. 540. April 13, 2005.

“Robin Hood in Reverse: The Case against Taking Private Property for Economic Development,”

By Ilya Somin. Policy Analysis No. 535. February 21, 2005.

“Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights Management: How Market Tools Can Solve Copyright Problems,”

By Michael A. Einhorn and Bill Rosenblatt. Policy Analysis No. 534. February 17, 2005.

“Who Killed Telecom? Why the Official Story Is Wrong,”

By Lawrence Gasman. Policy Analysis No. 533. February 7, 2005.

“Rethinking Electricity Restructuring,”

By Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor. Policy Analysis No. 530. November 30, 2004.

“How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America’s War on Terror,”

By Ted Galen Carpenter. Foreign Policy Briefing No. 84. November 10, 2004.

“When Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: How Political Ignorance Threatens Democracy,”

By Ilya Somin. Policy Analysis No. 525. September 22, 2004.

“Three Myths about Voter Turnout in the United States,”

By John Samples. Policy Analysis No. 524. September 14, 2004.

“Understanding Privacy — and the Real Threats to It,”

By Jim Harper. Policy Analysis No. 520. August 4, 2004.

“Can Tort Reform and Federalism Coexist?,”

By Michael I. Krauss and Robert A. Levy. Policy Analysis No. 514. April 14, 2004.

“Compulsory Licensing vs. the Three “Golden Oldies”: Property Rights, Contracts, and Markets,”

By Robert P. Merges. Policy Analysis No. 508. January 15, 2004.

“Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front,”

By Gene Healy. Policy Analysis No. 503. December 17, 2003.

“Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking,”

By Radley Balko. Policy Analysis No. 501. December 5, 2003.

“The Failures of Taxpayer Financing of Presidential Campaigns,”

By John Samples. Policy Analysis No. 500. November 25, 2003.

“The Quality of Corporate Financial Statements and Their Auditors before and after Enron,”

By George J. Benston. Policy Analysis No. 497. November 6, 2003.

“Keeping the Poor Poor: The Dark Side of the Living Wage,”

By Carl Horowitz. Policy Analysis No. 493. October 21, 2003.

“Threats to Financial Privacy and Tax Competition,”

By Richard W. Rahn and Veronique de Rugy. Policy Analysis No. 491. October 2, 2003.

“Defining Democracy Down: Explaining the Campaign to Repeal Term Limits,”

By Patrick Basham. Policy Analysis No. 490. September 30, 2003.

“The Benefits of Campaign Spending,”

By John J. Coleman. Briefing Paper No. 84. September 4, 2003.

“Property Rights: The Key to Economic Development,”

By Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. and W. Lee Hoskins. Policy Analysis No. 482. August 7, 2003.

“Why Subsidize the Soapbox? The McCain Free Airtime Proposal and the Future of Broadcasting,”

By John Samples and Adam D. Thierer. Policy Analysis No. 480. August 6, 2003.

“The Constitutional Case against “Free” Airtime,”

By Laurence H. Winer. Policy Analysis No. 481. August 6, 2003.

“The Uses and Abuses of Structured Finance,”

By Barbara Kavanagh. Policy Analysis No. 479. July 29, 2003.

“A Grand Façade: How the Grand Jury Was Captured by Government,”

By W. Thomas Dillard, Stephen R. Johnson and Tim Lynch. Policy Analysis No. 476. May 13, 2003.

“Should Congress Repeal Securities Class Action Reform?,”

By Adam C. Pritchard. Policy Analysis No. 471. February 27, 2003.