A confrontation with the blurred meaning of “public management” and “New Public Management” NPM is indispensable before trying whether there is an impact of such concepts on civil service regimes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the division of public employees between “civil...

Two central discussions regarding regulation of the financial sector have been developing alongside each other: one regards the role of central banks in crisis prevention and mitigation, the other considers the efficiency of consolidating the central bank with the bank supervisory functions....

This paper analyzes the financial regulatory structure of the US (federal level) from the point of view of information-flow. Two central discussions regarding regulation of the financial sector have been developing simultaneously: one regards the role of financial regulators in crisis prevention...

The Constitution protects the rights of Americans to participate in politics through assembly and membership in private interest groups. Yet the Founders recognized that interest groups and factions posed a particular danger in a democracy. According to James Madison, there was no way to remove...

As the prevalence of obesity has increased in the United States, public health advocates have proposed various government interventions to reduce obesity-related illness, disability, and deaths. Nowhere has the anti-obesity public health campaign been more proactive than at the local level in...

This is the first and only casebook geared entirely to the study of access to government, or freedom of information law, in the United States. Unlike other treatments that focus exclusively on the federal FOIA or on statutory FOI, this book takes a broader approach, recognizing that...

From produce to wine, we only consume things when they are ready. The courts are no different. That concept of "readiness" is how courts address cases and controversies as well. Justiciability doctrines, particularly ripeness, have a particularly important role in takings challenges to...

Qualified immunity for police officers in the United States is a broken legal doctrine that needs Congressional legislative remedy; however, police qualified immunity does not need to be eliminated. It must be reformed. Over the past 4 months of diligent and focused research, analysis, and...

In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with...