Since 1988 I've been fascinated with Hans-Hermann Hoppe's " argumentation ethics" defense of libertarian rights. This was around the time I was exposed to the legal concept "estoppel" in a contracts...
Stephan Kinsella
Stephan Kinsella is an attorney in Houston, director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and editor of Libertarian Papers.
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[ Editor's note: The Mises Institute presents the "voluntaryist constitution" as a thought experiment, and is not presented here as an ideological or political ideal.] There have been a number of...
Are there individual rights to one’s intellectual creations, such as inventions or written works? Should the legal system protect such rights? In this article, I summarize current US law on...