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Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

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Property & Personal Rights: A Discussion of Short-Term Rental Regulations Short-term rentals—popularized by Airbnb and Vrbo—have been given modern platforms for the customary...

TOMORROW! @masonlec.bsky.social Exec. Director and
Antonin Scalia Law School Prof. @donaldkochan.bsky.social moderates Federalist Society panel on #PersonalPropertyRights.

Panelists include Paul Clement, Ronald Klain, Tony Francois

To register & for more ℹ️ visit: fedsoc.org/events/prope...

21.05.2025 22:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Too much law made by too many lawmakers

23.03.2025 08:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Thank you skendo1.bsky.social, @seattleulaw.bsky.social; @jnj.bsky.social, National Security Institute, @donaldkochan.bsky.social, @masonlec.bsky.social ; Maya Steinitz, bulaw.bsky.social; & moderator Judge Trevor McFadden, for participating in yesterday's panel on TPLF & Litigation Transparency!

27.03.2025 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
How Little Policymakers Know About What They Imagine They Can Design (Recorded July 28, 2023)
YouTube video by Law & Economics Center at GMU Scalia Law How Little Policymakers Know About What They Imagine They Can Design (Recorded July 28, 2023)

This #LawDay, revisit our July 2023 discussion with Bruce Yandle & Don Boudreaux, @georgemasonu.bsky.social, moderated by @donaldkochan.bsky.social, @masonlec.bsky.social, on how foundational insights from economic thinkers can inform modern decision-making by legislators, regulators & judges.

01.05.2025 18:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
No86

Federalist Society No. 86 📺course answers❓: What is law & economics and why should lawyers know about it?

Series includes @masonlec.bsky.social Judge Douglas Ginsburg, Todd Zywicki, @donaldkochan.bsky.social

Listen while headed to court or the classroom🎧👩‍⚖️
no86.fedsoc.org/collections/...

06.05.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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James Madison, the ‘OG’ of DOGE Madison in Federalist No. 62 recognized that the creation of voluminous laws and regulations “poisons the blessing of liberty itself.”

“James Madison, The ‘OG’ of DOGE” —James Madison and his fellow Framers designed a Constitution to prevent voluminous and incomprehensible laws and regulations. We’ve strayed far from that plan, requiring change. My column in yesterday’s The Daily Signal. www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/04/j...

05.03.2025 23:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump Must Order Agencies to Audit Claims of Statutory Authority George Mason University law professor Donald Kochan says agencies should be required through executive order to conduct internal audits that assess vulnerabilities to legal challenges, following a tri...

Pleased to see that there are features of my January 15 @bloomberglaw.com proposal reflected in today's EO "Ensuring Lawful Governance & Implementing the President’s 'DOGE' Deregulatory Initiative" (at www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...) / See: news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...

20.02.2025 21:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Discovered on a San Francisco Park Bench, Mystery Art Makes Final Pilgrimage to Paris Work by Ary Arcadie Lochakov has joined the permanent collection at the Museum of Jewish Art and History.

If you've followed @jzigoris.bsky.social's fantastic, award-winning reporting on the cache of artwork found on an SF park bench, I'm pleased to say we have another update in this ever-evolving mystery (and it's really satisfying):

www.kqed.org/arts/1397161...

10.02.2025 20:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A low concrete bench with a bush behind it and an apartment building beyond it

A low concrete bench with a bush behind it and an apartment building beyond it

In 2022, employees from the Port of San Francisco discovered 48 abandoned artworks in Crane Cove Park on this bench. Now those works, many of them by an obscure but important Jewish artist Ary Lochakov, are headed back to Paris.

06.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

They will become part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Jewish Art and History, a beautiful end to a thrilling story. But is it the end? New information continues to emerge all the time, as my story coming out next week will detail. #lochakov #lochakow #art #mystery #sf #sanfrancisco

06.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Must Order Agencies to Audit Claims of Statutory Authority George Mason University law professor Donald Kochan says agencies should be required through executive order to conduct internal audits that assess vulnerabilities to legal challenges, following a tri...

My proposal in today’s @bloomberglaw.com for a new Executive Order requiring all agencies to audit statutory interpretation compliance. / @chrisjwalker.bsky.social @emilysbremer.bsky.social @khickmanjd.bsky.social @petermshane.bsky.social @jadler1969.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...

15.01.2025 19:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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***Merry Christmas DC!!!*** View through trees of the U.S. Capitol dome this evening, from New Jersey Ave. SE (effects generated by swooshing camera away during exposure, while moving to get out of the road) // @capitalweather.bsky.social @hillragdc.bsky.social @thehillishome.bsky.social //

24.12.2024 23:37 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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