Legal System

Because problems concerning punishment arise at many intellectual levels, there is no one question or set of questions about punishment to be answe

The central ideas of contemporary libertarianism have taken many centuries to evolve.

It is not actually possible to describe what a system of privately produced law and order would be like in modem society because one cannot describ

The sort of omission that is punished by statute is neglect of a duty or obligation.

A paper reviewing George Smith’s article “Justice Entrepreneurship in A Free Market” by Randy E. Barnett.

Professor David Gordon gives his critique of John Hospers’ “Libertarianism and Legal Paternalism” paper published in The Journal

In a long editorial entitled “Let the People See,” which appeared in the New York Tribune in 1852, Horace Greeley, the great e

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

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.

The right to a fair trial is commonly considered so central to our system of justice and so much a part of our legal heritage that to deny that peo