Regulation

September 22, 2017

Londoners Protected from Convenience by Benevolent State

Londoners rejoice! Your benevolent, all-knowing, all-seeing government has once again protected you from the horrors of convenience, cost-effective services, and comfortable transport. Uber, a taxi service which allows for cheap and convenient […]

August 1, 2017

The NHS’s New Drugs Framework Will Hurt UK Patients

Increased burden on the NHS has led it to introduce new price controls. These initiatives have been reviewed by independent agencies to be potentially harmful to UK patients, and remove significant amounts […]

July 12, 2017

Net Neutrality Day: Why this Website is Not Participating

Imagine, shops which need goods of all kinds (that need to be delivered to them from all over the world), were only allowed by governments to pay a certain price for delivery according […]

June 27, 2017

Judges Don’t Use Uber

“Uber is a transportation company”, says senior advisor to the European Court of Justice Maciej Szpunar. If the ECJ were actually to adopt the same attitude as the Polish legal advisor, then […]

October 11, 2016

Price Gouging: Not as Bad as People Think

According to CNN, Hurricane Matthew is the “strongest storm to hit the U.S. in over a decade” and caused a death toll nearing 900 in Haiti. Seeing how life-threatening Hurricane Matthew is, […]

September 30, 2016

How Netflix Could Push For Real Consumer Protection

Netflix has once again received national attention for its lobbying efforts to expand government regulation of internet service providers under the guise of consumer protection. Last week, the streaming service submitted a […]

July 25, 2016

Download presentation on the FDA and over-regulation

Friend and supporter of Students For Liberty, Bartley Madden, recently published a presentation of his research on the regulation of medicine under the title “Free To Choose Medicine and Right To Try” and […]

January 6, 2015

Gun Control and the Police State

As protests in Ferguson and elsewhere have brought police militarization to the forefront of public debate, some voices suggest that reigning in police militarization requires stricter gun control laws. For example, Matthew […]