A refugee boat from Libya
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, law and economics Tags: European Union, Italy, Libya, refugees
Libyans are dying as they flee a mess that Britain helped create. It's time to help: specc.ie/1GMxFoc http://t.co/zyRgLFPZJ2—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) April 18, 2015
Equivalent of 5 passenger planes full of people have drowned last week alone amn.st/6010frwe #DontLetThemDrown http://t.co/bEIE2mpJIh—
Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) April 20, 2015
High school seniors are drinking less, smoking less, and barely using cocaine
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
Peak relationship breakup times mapped
21 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: dating market, family demographics, marriage and divorce, search and matching
Helicopter parents alert: There’s never been a safer time to be a kid
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health and safety, health economics Tags: accident rates, capitalism and freedom, child rearing, economics of the family, health and safety, Helicopter parents, moral panic, The Great Escape
Gary Libecap: Global environmental externalities, property rights, and public policy – Coase conference video
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase Tags: Coase conference, Gary Libecap
Lincoln’s assassins were still at large, this day 1865
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, crime and punishment, political assassinations
Wanted poster for murderer of President Lincoln, still at large, 150 years ago this month: #LOC http://t.co/IRCjup0RU0—
Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 15, 2015
Sam Peltzman: Future directions of research in the Coasean tradition – Coase conference video
19 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, Sam Peltzman Tags: Coase conference
Fathers’ time use, 1965 and now
19 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: child rearing, family demographics, household division of labour, household production, marriage and divorce
Why are welfare beneficiaries so allergic to contact with case managers?
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, welfare reform
Support over time from marijuana decriminalisation was twin peaked in the USA
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: marijuana decriminalisation, medical marijuana decriminalisation, voter demographics
DNA and death row exonerations
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: capital punishment, crime and punishment, definitely
Sharia law, arbitration law and family law
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, property rights Tags: economics of contracts, family law, rule of law, Sharia law
Sharia law is part of a general issue of private arbitration in religious courts. There are rabbinical courts doing private arbitration among Orthodox Jews in the UK. There is a famous paper about extra-legal enforcement of contracts among Orthodox Jews in the diamond trade.
Success in the industry requires enforcing executory agreements that are beyond the reach of public courts, and Jewish diamond merchants enforce such contracts with a reputation mechanism supported by a distinctive set of industry, family, and community institutions. An industry arbitration system publicizes promises that are not kept. Intergenerational legacies induce merchants to deal honestly through their very last transaction, so that their children may inherit valuable livelihoods. And ultraorthodox Jews, for whom participation in their communities is paramount, provide important value-added services to the industry without posing the threat of theft and flight.
The British law society copped a lot of flak for issuing practice notes explaining how to write wills that were compliant with Islamic family law.
In any case, any will is always subject to laws about providing for the family and for dependent children and can be overridden on those grounds, no matter how they are written.
Peter Sellers left each of his adult children £750 because he wanted to disinherit them. Under the case law at that time, if you left your children nothing, the courts somehow persuaded themselves that you had forgotten to provide for them so they amended the will. By Sellers leaving them this small sum of money, he made it clear that he wanted the limit how much he gave his children.
In the UK, rulings handed down by the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal can be legally binding. This is because the Arbitration Act 1996 allows almost any body to act as a dispute resolution service if both parties agreed to be bound by its decision.
There is a bill before the House of Lords amending the Arbitration Act to ensure that the evidence of men and women are weighed equally and penalties to apply to any body purporting to have the powers of a court of law.
The UK parliament also passed a Forced Marriages Act a few years ago. This law included penalties for people who threaten self-harm if someone didn’t go through with an arranged marriage.
The reasons of supporters & opponents of marijuana legalisation
15 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, liberalism Tags: expressive voting, marijuana decriminalisation, meddlesome preferences, medical marijuana decriminalisation, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
Here are top reasons supporters & opponents of marijuana legalization give for their views pewrsr.ch/1PIaYUC http://t.co/hoPaMMQBXr—
Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 15, 2015
These rationales of thoroughly utilitarian and can actually be resolved by appeals to evidence. But the real reasons are the meddlesome preferences of the opponents of legalisation and the desire of the supporters of legalisation to smoke dope.
#Anti-Prohibition #demonstration in #Newark, #NewJersey, #1932 buff.ly/1GAEIOX #wewantbeer #beer #prohibition http://t.co/7Yr2ZjzHeN—
(@Pixxcell) April 06, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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