The Greens announced: Today, the Greens are announcing that a Green Government will commit to revoking any consents or permits handed out under the fast-track process for coal, Hardrock gold and seabed mining. This is the Greens saying that they will revoke consents and permits that were legally granted. This is the sort of behaviour…
Greens against the rule of law
Greens against the rule of law
25 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: rule of law
ROGER PARTRIDGE: HOW TO REIN IN AN ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT
22 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, rule of law
My earlier column this month, New Zealand’s highest court could be facing a turning point, prompted a flood of feedback from business readers and lawyers alike. A common query was what Parliament can do to restrain an overreaching judiciary. This week I discuss two steps Parliament should not hesitate to take. But first a quick recap. The…
ROGER PARTRIDGE: HOW TO REIN IN AN ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT
A Moment of Supreme Clarity: How the Court Delivered a Blow of the Lumberjack School of Constitutional Law
07 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election, regressive left, rule of law
Below is my column in USA Today on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to reject the disqualification of former president Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Some Democrats are now seeking to resume the effort through Congress to prevent voters from being able to vote for the leading candidate for the presidency. Here […]
A Moment of Supreme Clarity: How the Court Delivered a Blow of the Lumberjack School of Constitutional Law
“That Didn’t Stop Me”: President Biden Brags that the Supreme Court Cannot Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt
23 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2024 presidential election, rule of law, student debt
President Joe Biden held a press event to brag about a major accomplishment this week. That itself is hardly surprising in an election year, but the boast itself was rather curious. In announcing the writing off of another $1.2 billion owed to the government in student loans, Biden gloated that the Supreme Court could not […]
“That Didn’t Stop Me”: President Biden Brags that the Supreme Court Cannot Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt
OLIVER HARTWICH: Absurd – NZ courts can now decide on climate change
17 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate activists, rule of law
Oliver Hartwich writes – The World Justice Project ranks New Zealand 7th out of 142 countries on its ‘Rule of Law Index’, narrowly ahead of Australia’s 13th place. However, Australia still has hope – if only because of a recent decision by the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The case is easily told. Mike Smith, […]
OLIVER HARTWICH: Absurd – NZ courts can now decide on climate change
The Sullivan Signal: Harvard’s Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, rule of law
The current Harvard disaster was clearly signaled by earlier events, most notably the 2019 firing of Dean Ronald Sullivan. Sullivan is a noted criminal defense attorney; he was the director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and he is the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, he […]
The Sullivan Signal: Harvard’s Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle
Margaret Cunneen SC at the Presumption of Guilt Conference
30 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: law and order, political correctness, rule of law, sex discrimination
Exploring Liberty, Part 4: Simple Rules for a Complex World
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, Richard Epstein Tags: rule of law
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours with David Friedman 2020
14 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: rule of law
Richard Epstein | The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
06 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, rule of law
Hayek on the Rule of Law
07 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, constitutional political economy, economics, F.A. Hayek Tags: rule of law
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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