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John O. McGinnis

John Oldham McGinnis is an American legal scholar at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and author of over… more

John O. McGinnis
H-index: 18
Political science 44%
Economics 31%
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Because we have a consensus against entitlement reform and increasing taxes on any but the top 2 percent, the Trump administration is taking the only way out of our fiscal crisis-- creating a program of deregulation to turn liberty into an engine of growth. lawliberty.org/strategic-de...
Strategic Deregulation to Spur Economic Growth – John O. McGinnis
America needs economic growth to get out of our debt crisis—and a truly deregulatory agenda can help.
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As an accreditor, the ABA contributes to the high cost of legal education, stifles innovation, and often encourages left-liberal indoctrination in the profession. The Trump administration should tell the ABA: "You're fired!"
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Deregulating Legal Education – John O. McGinnis
As with many sectors of American life, legal education is paralyzed by overregulation. But a few simple changes could fix that.
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Regulation by enforcement stifles innovation, chokes economic growth, and undermines the rule of law. But the Administrative Procedure Act gives regulated parties a way to avoid it through declaratory orders, as I explain here. lawliberty.org/preventing-r....
Preventing Regulation by Enforcement – John O. McGinnis & Leo J. Soh
Regulators should make rules before they set out to enforce them.
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Frederick Jackson Turner noted that the frontier's closure posed a challenge to America’s self-conception. Musk’s work reopens the frontier—not by looking to westward, but by gazing outward to the stars and inward to the human mind.https://www.city-journal.org/article/elon-musk-doge-legal-democracy
Elon Musk’s Government Activities Are Legal
DOGE’s mandate is built on sound law and the will of the voters.
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Gienapp's Against Originalism, fails to persuade because it neglects the Constitution—its text, structure, and self-referential nature. He confuses objections to originalism as a method with objections to certain originalist readings. lawliberty.org/book-review/...
The Constitution Neglected – John O. McGinnis & Mike Rappaport
Jonathan Gienapp seeks to use the historian’s tools to challenge originalism, but in the process he neglects the text of the Constitution itself.
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The debate over disinformation today is ultimately between two philosophies of man: one sees him as an agent of his own freedom, the other as an object for manipulation by malign private actors or a beneficent state lawliberty.org/the-politica...
The Political Theories Underlying the Disinformation Debate – John O. McGinnis
Contemporary debates about “disinformation” point back to a fundamental tension in Enlightenment philosophy.
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