On a private list I posted the following: I’m looking for a couple of good libertarian articles that oppose hate-crime legislation on grounds that the motive behind a particular intentional crime do not make the particular act of crime better or worse from the victim’s point of view, or similar criticism. I received a few private replies to my
Following up on Oliva’s post , it seems to me that, as Lew Rockwell has posted , if the movement conservatives hate her, she can’t be all that bad. It seems to me that most of her alleged flaws are not really objectionable. Who cares about her law school or pedigree or whether she is a lawyer or has had judicial experience? The Constitution is
The following is from an email list discussion regarding the issue of enforceability of voluntary slavery contracts. XX, I agree re “valid” and also re the problem with lawyers. But I believe it’s the opposite: most mainstream lawyers usually mean positive law; and when they confuse the two, they are not usually as bad as the layman, who is even
As Walter Block, Roy Whitehead and I argue in a forthcoming law review article, “The Duty To Defend Advertising Injuries Caused By Junk Faxes: An Analysis Of Privacy, Spam, Detection And Blackmail” (and as I have argued elsewhere ), spam and related activities can in principle be a crime—a type of trespass—since it is a means by which the spammer
In the September 2005 issue of Corporate Legal Times , the article “High Court Set To Tackle IP Tying In Antitrust Cases” discusses the upcoming Supreme Court case Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink , in which the Court will decide whether there should be a presumption of “market power” in antitrust “tying cases” in the case of a patented
Apropos nothing, I’ve just added a few pieces to my site scanned from my paper files, on the topic of (Austrian) law and economics: Becker, Joseph, Procrustean Jurisprudence: An Austrian School Economic Critique of the Separation and Regulation of Liberties in the Twentieth Century United States Crespi, Gregory Scott, Exploring The Complicationist
From Le Quebecois Libre : “Dr. Hoppe, Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is a remarkable friend of liberty and the free market. His recent book, Democracy: The God that Failed, is a groundbreaking treatise on the inherent harms of unlimited political majority rule and its connection with the progressive deterioration of
Repudiating public debts incurred by states is entirely libertarian, as argued by Murray Rothbard . Yet even international law recognizes a more limited version of this notion, in the doctrine of Odious Debt developed by Alexander Sack, a professor of law in Paris and former minister in the Tsarist government. After the Russian Revolution of 1917,
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