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A BLOG ABOUT LAW, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

Max Stearns

Oct 19, 2019
8 min

The Elizabeth Warren Fantasy

“I have a plan for that.” Elizabeth Warren There’s little doubt that Elizabeth Warren, the woman with a plan, is a force. She’s witty,...

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Max Stearns

Apr 7, 2019
5 min

The AOC Wars

Rarely has a political figure, especially one so young, so new, and a woman, provoked such visceral division within our polity as...

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Max Stearns

Feb 20, 2019
4 min

A Narrative Theory of Voting

Economists struggle to explain why people vote. Conventional accounts have been variously described as circular or paradoxical. The...

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Max Stearns

Jan 6, 2019
6 min

A Coasian View of a Trumpian Wall

In 1991, the year before I started teaching, Ronald Coase received the Nobel Prize in Economics. In setting out his now eponymous...

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Max Stearns

Sep 14, 2018
10 min

The Newest Viral Media Graphic

In November 2017, I stumbled upon Vanessa Otero’s viral media graphic, which, at the time, was in its third iteration. In my first...

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Max Stearns

Sep 1, 2018
9 min

Why I am not a Socialist

Our politics increasingly runs toward extremes. We no longer join together in cheering on competing teams of players selected for their...

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Max Stearns

Aug 12, 2018
6 min

Disequilibrium

Equilibrium is a foundational concept in the study of both private and political markets. Professors convey the concept with two curves,...

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Max Stearns

Jan 10, 2018
5 min

Oprah Ambivalence

I watched the inspiring Golden Globes speech. I listened to those ready to anoint a new Democratic hopeful. I reflected on those who...

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Max Stearns

Nov 28, 2017
8 min

Why I am not a Libertarian

Prelude I have spent approximately half my career at each of two very different law schools: George Mason Law School (now named for...

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Max Stearns

Jul 22, 2017
3 min

My Reflections on Trump's Republican Nomination: One Year Later

One year ago today, after watching Trump accept the Republican nomination, I posted an analysis on FB. I reproduce that post below, with...

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Max Stearns

Jun 25, 2017
6 min

Trump isn’t the Problem (with language alert)

The number 1 trending NYT article is a list of Trump’s lies since he was sworn in as President. See here. Before the election, the NYT...

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Maxwell Stearns

I have been teaching law for twenty-nine years, and I am the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. My core areas of interest are Constitutional Law and Law & Economics, which I view as critically interwoven. My most recent book is titled Law and Economics: Private and Public (West Academic 2018, with Todd Zywicki and Tom Miceli). In this poster, recently created by the Maryland Carey Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library, I am pictured with several wonderful books that I've recommended to friends, family, and students.