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Stephen D. Sugarman
Publikováno v:
Theoretical Inquiries in Law. 22:329-343
The overriding theme of the conference honoring Bob Cooter and his work is the question whether law and policy can change people’s preferences. The conventional “law and economics” answer is “no.” People have preferences that are fixed. Wha
Autor:
Robert L. Rabin, Stephen D. Sugarman
The proliferation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry has had profound implications for American health policy, tort law, civil law, and welfare and social policy. Since the publication of Rabin and Sugarman's Smoking Policy, class action suits,
Autor:
John E. Coons, Stephen D. Sugarman
Education by Choice: The Case for Family Control presents a compelling analysis of educational reform through family choice, exploring the concept of educational vouchers and entitlements as alternatives to traditional, locality-based public schoolin
Autor:
Stephen D. Sugarman
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This article first describes a wide range of shortcomings in the U.S. elementary and secondary educational system in the 1960s. At a time when in many respects our K-12 education scheme was generally thought to be a great success, many groups of pupi
Autor:
Stephen D. Sugarman, Caitlin Boucher
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
In the article, we make three claims. First, we argue that a large number of what are traditionally seen as separate torts are, at their core, all about affronts to the dignity of the victim. These include offensive battery, assault, false imprisonme
Autor:
Stephen D. Sugarman
Publikováno v:
Law & Policy. 36:91-112
The American public could enjoy a much healthier diet if we enticed food and beverage retailers (stores and restaurants) to substantially reduce the calories, added sugar, sodium, and saturated fat that pass through their cash registers—say, a 25 p
Autor:
Stephen D. Sugarman
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
When Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders squabbled during their 2015-16 election campaigns over the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), they were talking past each other, misleading their listeners, and failing to understand wha
Autor:
Stephen D. Sugarman
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This article offers a bold proposal: eliminate the intentional tort of battery and merge cases of both the negligent and intentional imposition of physical harm into a single new tort. The advantages of a single tort of wrongfully causing physical ha
Autor:
Stephen D. Sugarman
Publikováno v:
Journal of School Choice. 4:191-194
Jack Coons has championed family choice in education for more than 40 years (Coons, Clune, & Sugarman, 1969). Throughout this period he has been unwavering in his belief that empowering families to have an important role in deciding where and how the