Legal Foundations of a Free Society

Libertarian Answer Man: Law, legal and norms texts

Someone asked Hans-Hermann Hoppe for any of his recommendations as to texts, articles, books and the like on science of law, norms, crime, legal responsibility, philosophy of law, which are linked to Austrian and praxeological thinking–writings on a philosophical legal level. I was cc’d on this corresponded and provided the following answer. Dr. Hoppe passed onto […]

Book Review of Anthony de Jasay, Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order

Stephan Kinsella, “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order. By Anthony de Jasay. London and New York: Routledge, 1997,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 1, no. 1. (Fall 1998): 85–93. Revised version published as “Review of Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order, by Anthony de Jasay,” in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (forthcoming 2023).

A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability (2003)

“A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 17, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 11-37, based on paper presented at Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999). To be included in Law in a Libertarian World. Related: Łukasz Dominiak & Tate Fegley, “Contract Theory, […]

“A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights” (1997)

“A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights,”  Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 30, no. 2 (Jan. 1997): 607-45. PDF text version with italics and some formatting missing. Below is an edited version to be used for publication in Law in a Libertarian World, which also includes some material from “Punishment and Proportionality: The Estoppel Approach, 12:1 Journal of […]

“Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law” (1999)

Stephan Kinsella, “Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law” (review essay of Randy E. Barnett, The Structure of Liberty), Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 2, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 49–71 [pdf]. To appear in Law in a Libertarian World. The second edition of Barnett’s book, published in 2014, concedes one of my criticisms (of his use of […]