Corruption Defies Legal Definition
Recently, I had the challenging experience of mediating a civil case which directly involved an examination and reconciliation of the…
Category: Law and Economics
Corporate Networks, Power and Money Precipitate Crises of the Old Order
The effects of the recession have lingered on for everyone who hasn’t benefited from what financial op-ed columnist Steven Pearlstein…
The Politics of the Shift of Economic Risk
What happens when interest group politics gets out of control? Well, we’re witnessing it, are we not faithful readers! Ironically,…
The Great Risk Shift
My last column ended by asking, “What are the big issues?” and “more importantly ….how should they be framed?” One…
Lobbying – An Honorable Profession
Barack Obama campaigned on a pledge to “Change Washington” vowing to “upend the K Street Lobbying Culture.” In Annapolis Martin O’Malley…
The Debate on Economic Issues Takes Shape
I noted in my last two columns that unfortunately the discussion and debate on global and domestic economic issues which…
The Collapse of the Deregulated Economy
Whether you believe that we have unknowingly acquiesced in “The Great Risk Shift” described by Yale Political Science Professor Jacob…
Contributory Negligence Issue Returns to Assembly
After a four year hiatus, probably induced by the accurate perception the former Governor Ehrlich’s unabashed “pro business” philosophy would…
Law and Economics
The social and economic “costs” of initiating and applying public policy in accordance with a particularly political or social philosophy…
Law and Responsibility
It is fashionable in some quarters today for “pundits, politicians and assorted talking heads,” when asked to comment on a…