We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...

The Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism (‘ADGSM’) provides the Australian Government with an expedient regulatory tool over gas exporters. Australia is the largest exporter of Liquified Natural Gas (‘LNG’) in the world but has suffered from very high domestic gas prices. If the...

The sinister turn in international law can be defined as the paradox created by successful decolonization efforts when 1) the colonization and decolonization are/were characterized by race, such as in the case of former apartheid states, 2) decolonization reverses the political and legal...

Of the many powers granted to federal, state, and local governments through the Constitution of the United States, eminent domain is possibly the strongest and most imposing, at least as it relates to citizens’ property rights. This dissertation explores several large-scale public undertakings...

This paper examines the effectiveness of six institutional quality measures, namely corruption control, effective government, political stability, regulatory quality, rule of law and voice and accountability, in inhibiting self-rewarding behaviour of boards in terms of their compensation as well...