Reform of Public Law: Pragmatism or Principle?

Investigating the Validity of Wagner's Law and Performance-Based Budget Reform in Public Expenditure of Selected Asian Countries

Wagner's law indicates a positive long-run equilibrium relationship between per capita income growth and the relative size of the public sector. Accordingly, the main purpose of this article is to verify Wagner's theory and the law on operational budgeting reforms on public spending and educational, health, and military priorities. To meet these ends, the data of 13 Asian selected countries dur...

Freestanding pragmatism in law and bioethics.

This paper represents the first installment of a larger project devoted to the relevance of pragmatism for bioethics. One self-consciously pragmatist move would be to return to the classical pragmatist canon of Peirce, James and Dewey in search of substantive doctrines or methodological approaches that might be applied to current bioethical controversies. Another pragmatist (or neopragmatist) m...

Reform of the Law

slowly than medicine and this is not in keeping with knowledge about causation and treatment which is the fruit of research. It is ironic that the regulations governing certification still reflect a greater concern for the liberty and good treatment of the patient's body than of his mind, and in some cases they are apparently designed to prevent victimisation by unscrupulous doctors?an attitude...

Public and Private in Feminism and Pragmatism

Serious Tort Law Reform

Tort law is a form of collective intervention into social and economic affairs that carries with it substantial costs, both public and private. These costs include higher prices for goods and services, higher taxes, and the socially undesirable consequences that tort law has on people's behavior such as the failure of companies to develop and introduce products the public wants, the wasteful an...