Justin Callais is a third-year Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University and a research assistant at the Free Market Institute. He earned his M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Texas Tech University and his B.B.A. in Economics from Loyola University New Orleans. He has served as a lecturer in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University and in the School of Economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. Mr. Cal-lais conducts research in economic development, institutional analysis, and constitutional political economy. His articles have been published in journals such as the Journal of Institutional Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Independent Review, and Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice.