Looking at discrimination, education, environment, health and crime, this volume analyses United States Supreme Court rulings on several legal issues and proposed libertarian solutions to each problem. Setting their own liberal theory of law, each chapter discusses the law at hand, what it should be, and what it would be if their political economic philosophy were the justification of the legal practice. Covering issues such as sexual harassment, religion, markets in human organs, drug prohibition and abortion, this book is a timely contribution to classical liberal debate on law and economics.

Combines constitutional legal theory with libertarian/Vienna-school principles and economics Suggests libertarian solutions to legal problems Provides a fresh, a-political view of timely issues, including sexual harassment, drug prohibition and abortion

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Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, USA, and senior fellow at the Mises Institute, USA. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1972. He has taught at Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook, Baruch CUNY, Holy Cross and the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than 500 refereed articles in professional journals, two dozen books, and thousands of op eds. He lectures widely on college campuses, delivers seminars around the world and appears regularly on television and radio shows. He is the Schlarbaum Laureate, Mises Institute, 2011; and has won the Loyola University Research Award (2005, 2008) and the Mises Institute's Rothbard Medal of Freedom, 2005; and the Dux Academicus award, Loyola University, 2007.

Inhalt
Part I. Discrimination.- Chapter 1: Gender Equity in Athletics.- Chapter 2: Should the Government be Allowed to Discriminate?.- Chapter 3: Christian Landlords: Sinners Need Not Apply.- Chapter 4: The Boy Scouts' Right to Discriminate.- Chapter 5: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.- Part II. Education.- Chapter 6: Forcing Some to Pay for the Free Speech of Others.- Chapter 7: Direct Payment of Scholarships to Church-Related Colleges.- Part III. Environment.- Chapter 8: The Unintended Consequences of Environmental Justice.- Chapter 9: Environmental Justice Risks in the Petroleum Industry.- Chapter 10: Environmental Takings: the Case for Full Water Privatization.- Chapter 11: The value of private water rights.- Part IV. Health.- Chapter 12: Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues.- Chapter 13: America's Failing Drug Control Laws.- Part V. Crime.- Chapter 14: Taking the assets of the criminal to compensate victims of violence.- Chapter 15: Resolving the Abortion Controversy.- Chapter 16. The IRS Joins the Boardroom.