Legal System

When Professor Georges Gurvitch, the highly esteemed occupant of the chair of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg before World War II and th

In his book Principles of Morals and Legislation, the eighteenth-century philosopher and legislator Jeremy Bentham divided all laws into t

Although historians had long missed the importance of religion in American politics, it has recently become a central topic.

Having adopted a profoundly radical creed at odds with the ruling dogmas of their day, what did Lao-tzu, La Boétie, Quesnay, Turgot, and James Mill offer as a strategy for social change in the direction of liberty?

Volume 1, Number 3 (1977)

What this essay will attempt to show is that while, during the 19th century, the prohibition of sexual immoralit

Modern libertarian thought is essentially deductive in character.

In recent years a new and powerful critique of our current criminal justice system has been advanced by advocates of a totally new approach to crim

In this article, Stephan Kinsella critiques George Smith’s recent article in Liberty magazine on capital punishment.

The literature of American legal history is primarily a history of federal and state governments, creating the false impression that these governme

In legal philosophy there is perhaps no older, nor deeper, conflict than that which exists between legal positivists and natural law advocates.