Pacific Legal Foundation’s research addresses questions that arise frequently in our litigation and legislative work. With sophisticated data analysis, novel legal analysis, and storytelling, our research provides broader context for our litigation. PLF also produces scholarly articles that advance constitutional theories supporting individual liberty, property rights, and constitutional government.

Research and scholarship is led by PLF’s researchers and constitutional scholars, with support and expertise from PLF’s litigators, legal policy experts, outside scholars, and partner organizations.

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Working Papers

Pacific Legal Foundation solicits working papers on topics of special interest and posts them for further discussion, generally in advance of publication in academic journals. The views expressed in this and related papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect an institutional position of Pacific Legal Foundation.