The Structure of Liberty is an important new work by one of libertarianism's most significant and thoughtful legal scholars. Its primary substantive deficiency is its over-reliance on the Hayekian knowledge paradigm
oth the establishment of property rights and their violation spring from actions: acts of appropriation and expropriation. However, in addition to a physical appearance, actions also have an internal, subjective aspect.
The title of this symposium is Austrian Law and Economics: The Contributions of Adolf Reinach and Murray Rothbard. The second part of this title is not at all problematic;
The Eastern European countries have been going through a transition phase since the liberalization of their economies with the collapse of communist regimes in the early 1990s.
To Serve and Protect is a breath of fresh air in the fog of mainstream recommendations concerning security, crime, and punishment. In the mainstream literature, liberals typically regard the offender as the victim of an egoistic society and conservatives typically say that the only way to reduce crime is to increase the severity of punishment. Benson brilliantly shows that the solution to the problem of criminal justice does not rest with increasing law-enforcement budgets or imposing harsher punishments, but with privatization.
Economic analysis can be applied to the phenomenon of crime. In the present paper, we will deal with an approach to the economics of crime that is built on the foundations of neoclassical welfare theory.
In the context of legal analysis, one important praxeological doctrine is the distinction between action and mere behavior. The difference between action and behavior boils down to intent.
Patents have a long history as a proxy for inventive activity. Although these data lost ground in the early 1960s to other measures of technical innovation, they have once again become fashionable in the last decade.
In Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner examines how the United States moved from the ad coelom rule
This monograph by Professor Michael Krauss of the George Mason University School of Law is a well-written and accessible critique of the recent government lawsuits against the tobacco and firearms industries.
