New Zealand youth suicide rates are among the worst in OECD countries. Given that this age group is considered to be particularly vulnerable to peer pressure and ‘copycat' behaviour, it is perhaps no surprise that significant attention is being paid to media reporting on suicide. Most of this...

Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this chapter. Topics addressed below include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...

Over the course of the last half-century, the “injury in fact” test has been radically transformed. It began as a bold and essentially lawless effort, led by Justice William O. Douglas, to expand the category of persons entitled to bring suit, and in the process to open federal courts to a...