Law

RT | July 31, 2013

A ruling this week in a United States appeals court means officers of the law can legally and physically track down suspects based off of cell phone data without ever obtaining a warrant.
A 2-1 decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday means law enforcement needn’t prove probable cause when asking a telecom company for location data that could be used to pinpoint suspected criminals.

RT :: July 29, 2013

New Zealand faces allegations of spying on a journalist in Afghanistan with the help of US agencies over his coverage of NZ’s treatment of prisoners. Defense denies the allegations, while the PM says reporters can get caught in surveillance nets.

RT :: July 28, 2013

NSA spying programs give access to US citizens’ private data to low-level analysts with little court approval or supervision, says Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story on Washington’s PRISM surveillance system.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 068. From the shownotes: “Why Man Made Law Is Slavery! In this video I talk to Stephan Kinsella of https://www.stephankinsella.com We talk about man made law and how it is better to just have contracts with one another.” Youtube: Original:

RT | June 12, 2013

Germans are expressing outrage as details of a US internet spy program – revealed by a former CIA employee-turned-whistleblower – are prompting comparisons with that of former communist East Germany’s Ministry for State Security.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 026. This is FreeDomain Radio episode 2336, in which host Stefan Molyneux and I discussed libertarian aspects of corporations and limited liability law. (Originally recorded Feb. 22, 2013, released by FDR on Feb. 26.) For more on this issue see my Libertarian Standard post Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation; and KOL100 […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 022. This is lecture 5b (in addition to the 6 main lectures) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” The main lectures start at KOL018. Video, Transcript and Slides below. This lecture’s topic is “Q&A” For slides for the six main lectures, plus extensive hyperlinked suggested reading material, […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 002. A reading of one of my earlier IP articles by Ian Freeman on Free Talk Live, from the 8/31/07 show [FTL audio; starts around 5:25]. The article is “Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes,” Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (containing a response by CEI’s James DeLong). [As noted in the […]

I’ve discussed before my take on whether clickwrap and related agreements ought to be enforceable in The Libertarian View on Fine Print, Shrinkwrap, Clickwrap; see also The Libertarian Approach to Negligence, Tort, and Strict Liability: Wergeld and Partial Wergeld. (My 2004 Oxford University Press book Online Contract Formation addresses purely legal aspects of such questions.) A recent Inside […]

My recent book, Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro Books, 2011), co-authored with an  Austro-libertarian legal scholar friend, Gregory Rome, was recently reviewed at the iPhoneJD blog: November 13, 2012 Review: Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary — ebook of civil law words and phrases I’ve reviewed several legal dictionary apps for the iPhone and iPad — Black’s Law […]