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October 17, 2008
Blog

Nice Little Bank You Got There; Shame If Anything Happened to It
Some years ago I wrote an article titled “The Gun behind the Law.” (Not online, but it appears in The Politics of Freedom.) It began with a photograph of 50 or so helmeted policemen storming the doors of a large …
By David Boaz
April 15, 2001
Washington Post

Fine Words
… a government official in a constitutional democracy. And it’s even more disturbing that an administrative officer would uphold the police officer’s action. Fined for a political opinion? The D.C. Council should tell the police department that the …
By David Boaz
November 30, 1998
Cato.org

Another Drug War Casualty
… Dangerous as drugs may be to those who use them, that danger pales in comparison with the dangers of a police state. Some police killings are properly described as tragic accidents. This was no accident. The police may have been …
By Tim Lynch
June 24, 1988
The Wall Street Journal

Rowan Case and the Need to Bear Arms
… chance of going to jail. Guns reduce crime; gun control causes crime. In 1986 the National Association of Chiefs of Police and the American Federation of Police sent a questionnaire to every chief of police and sheriff in the country …
By David B. Kopel
Spring/Summer 1988
Cato Journal

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An Institutional Explanation for Corruption of Criminal Justice Officials
By Bruce L. Benson
January 12, 2023
USA Today

Did You Hear the One about 2 Guys Who Told Jokes about the Cops? They Landed in Jail.
Humorless government agents have recently inflicted unlawful retaliation against harmless pranksters, and courts have shielded those agents from accountability.
By Thomas A. Berry and Nicholas DeBenedetto
January 4, 2018
Blog

Highlights from Overlawyered — 2017
Highlights of 2017 from Overlawyered.
By Walter Olson
May 28, 2015
Cato Video

Lessons from Baltimore
Featuring Matthew Feeney
May 27, 2015
Cato Video

Lessons from Baltimore
Featuring Tim Lynch
April 11, 2012
Blog

Stand Your Ground: Law and Evidence
By Tim Lynch
November 17, 2009
Blog

Beyond Parody
By Daniel J. Mitchell
October 15, 2009
Blog

Due Process Case to be Decided on Procedural Grounds
By Ilya Shapiro
August 13, 2009
Blog

Arrogant Judges
By Tim Lynch
April 24, 2000
Cato.org

Clinton Regime Outdoes Itself by Snatching Elian Gonzalez
By Deroy Murdock
September 29, 2016
Book Forum

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
Featuring the author James Duane, Professor, Regent University Law School; with comments by Randy Barnett, Director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution, Georgetown University Law School; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.

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Nice Little Bank You Got There; Shame If Anything Happened to It

Fine Words

Another Drug War Casualty

Rowan Case and the Need to Bear Arms

An Institutional Explanation for Corruption of Criminal Justice Officials

Did You Hear the One about 2 Guys Who Told Jokes about the Cops? They Landed in Jail.

Highlights from Overlawyered — 2017

Lessons from Baltimore

Lessons from Baltimore

Stand Your Ground: Law and Evidence

Beyond Parody

Due Process Case to be Decided on Procedural Grounds

Arrogant Judges

Clinton Regime Outdoes Itself by Snatching Elian Gonzalez

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent