The provision of public services and goods is a perennial and critical issue in the design of good social (and therefore legal) policy.  Here is Kathryn Chan (UVic) taking on the incentive effects created by our legal framework. In her comparative piece (Canada/UK), “The Co-optation of Charities by Threatened Welfare States” she finds that Canada’s legal framework orients charities to the government’s substantive agenda, thus stifling dissent and independent agency.