Occupational Licensing

News and Commentary Law360 has a profile of lawyers and judges who skipped law school and instead were able to take the bar after a few years of apprenticeship. Aspiring [...]

News and Commentary The New Jersey Senate health committee just approved a bill that would allow advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication without supervision from a physician. Physician groups are [...]

News and Commentary The U.S. Marine Corps is following the lead set by the Air Force and Army by offering the spouses of active-duty military up to $500 in reimbursement [...]

News and Commentary Elise Amez-Droz and Andrea O'Sullivan outline some of the best supply side reforms to increase access and bring down healthcare costs. Among their proposed reforms are increased [...]

News and Commentary A federal judge has found Savannah, Georgia's law against unlicensed tour guides to be a violation of the First Amendment. The suit was brought by the Institute [...]

News and Commentary Conor Norris in Catalyst, the blog of the Independent Institute, argues for the expanded use of nurse practitioners by using the one argument in the debate that [...]

Rent Check A reform in Oklahoma that would limit licensing boards' ability to deny ex-cons an occupational license shows that criminal justice and economic liberalization are two great tastes that [...]

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is expected to sign a bill into law that would make it easier for previously convicted citizens to gain an occupational license. As Reason’s Eric Boehm [...]

Rent Check Is public choice theory a sufficient explanation for the existence of occupational licensing? While some licenses are easily explained by public choice theory, alternative explanations like public protection or [...]