http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/some-heroes-for-our-time/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/some-heroes-for-our-time/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:53:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27242 My new post at Cato at Liberty is on Italian labor law professors Pietro Ichino and Carlo Dell’Aringa, who live under police protection because of their support for liberalization of the job market; two other professors, Massimo D’Antona and Mario Biagi, have been killed by Red Brigades gunmen. More: Coyote.

Tags: employment at will, Italy, law schools, terrorism

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Tags: employment at will, Europe, technology

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Tags: disabled rights, employment at will, George W. Bush, United Kingdom

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