Journal of Libertarian Studies

It is frequently maintained that “free trade” belongs to “free immigration” as “protectionism” does to “restricted immigration.” This is erroneous.

In “Government Regulation and Intergenerational Justice,” Rolf Sartorius argues that some government regulation is justified in order t

This paper is an attempt to use what is essentially “public choice” analysis- which assumes that individuals will make “rational&

In two by-elections in the spring of 1996, the Front National (FN), the party of the radical right in France, helped several candidates of the left

Contained in the legal systems of almost all modern liberal democratic states is the provision for extraordinary executive power to be exercised in

The following essay attempts to touch on one aspect of modern environmentalism and to examine it against the backdrop of the values associated with

Salim Rashid (1990) purports to have established some facts about Adam Smith’s scholarship, significant among which are (a) Smith’s pla

Libertarians’ devotion to individual rights, and to laws in support of those rights, is unquestionable.

It is the task of this paper to describe what can happen to “a good cause” when it is “ineptly defended,” and to address the problem of the relatio

Many of the problem areas in the law of contracts stem from the historical fact that the law of contracts has been fashioned out of material that does not fit together logically. Some jurists view contracts as conventions serving to secure people's expectations. These jurists, who support their approach by invoking the allied philosophical traditions of utilitarianism and pragmatism, have tried to make the law of contracts a device to protect parties who rely on promised advantages. Therefore, these jurists want law-enforcement processes to make people live up to the expectations they arouse in others.