Rethinking the Headlines

About the Book

Rethinking the Headlines: Studies in Law, Justice, and Society is a book about some of the most important and contentious issues of American law. On Crime and Punishment: what is the goal of the criminal law and courts, and how should that goal be implemented in practice? On Divorce: divorce is not only a personal choice, it is a social dynamic. What does that mean? On Separation of Church and State: limited Church and limited State. On the roots of law: Natural Law and the Declaration of Independence.

About the Author

Joel Clarke Gibbons, KC PhD, has worked in the investment business for nearly thirty years as a securities analyst, market strategist, and for the last sixteen years an independent trader in Chicago. Previous to starting his own independent local firm, Logistic Research & Trading Co., he was an investment strategist and head of government (bond) trading at the investment subsidiary of Harris Bank of Chicago. He holds two doctoral degrees: in mathematics from Northwestern University and in economics from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago. In addition to his professional achievements in the investment and finance field, he is a noted author, with books on law, the economy, philosophy, and current events. His critique of the American economy, entitled Dysfunctions of the Welfare State (Transaction Publisher: the Rutgers University Press, 2010), is a practitioner’s view of economic policy which complements the studies presented in this book.