On May 11, in defiance of a government lockdown order, Elon Musk reopened Tesla’s car plant in Fremont, California, which elicited a negative reaction from Noah Feldman, professor of law at Harvard Law School: Arguably it’s possible to conceive some circumstances where a law is morally unjust and a corporation would be justified in acting like an
ABSTRACT : This paper recounts the history of food inspection from a voluntaryist perspective. In England and the United States, the efforts to achieve food safety have relied upon two main methods: education and legislation. Governments did nothing that could not be done on the free market (and in many cases was already being done). Books on how
ABSTRACT : In this essay, I argue that we should believe that agents have what I call natural procedural rights. On the one hand, agents have rights to prevent their rights from being violated, rights to stop those who are violating their rights, and rights to rectification when their rights are violated. In pursuing these rights, I argue that—at
ABSTRACT : What is the correct analysis, from a libertarian point of view, of governmental action in the face of the coronavirus? Is the state justified in imposing quarantines or vaccines to cure this disease? These are the questions we shall be wrestling with in this paper. KEYWORDS: infection, property rights, threats, disease, pandemic,
ABSTRACT : Rothbard’s principal conclusion that libel and slander laws have no place in libertarian law is correct. We build upon his brilliant insight on this matter and wrestle with the following questions: How does a reputational right operate? Who, properly, owns such a right? Is this property right alienable—transferable? How would this work
El 11 de mayo, desafiando una orden de cierre del gobierno, Elon Musk reabrió la fábrica de automóviles de Tesla en Fremont, California, lo que provocó una reacción negativa por parte de Noah Feldman, profesor de derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard: Se puede argumentar que es posible concebir algunas circunstancias en las que una ley es
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