First published 1961
Freedom and the Law
Freedom and the Law by Bruno Leoni is available as a free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle download at freecapitalists.org.
- Bruno Leoni
- First published
- 1961
- Format
- PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
- Pages
- 214
- ISBN
- 9780865970977
- Publisher
- Nash Publishing, Los Angeles
- License
- Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.
Law, property & rights Liberty, ethics & philosophy
Bruno Leoni was surely the most important Italian free market thinker of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Here we have an outstanding analysis of the relationship between law and freedom, one that follows up on Bastiat and, many argue, exceeds Hayek in rigor and consistency.
Leoni explains the features of law under freedom and show how the lawmakers themselves end up undermining those features such as stability, universality, and non-arbitrariness. He sees the greatest threat to the old liberal notion of the rule of law as the state itself.
Leoni is one of those great thinkers who grew more hard core as he got older, and, in some ways, we can see the essential Rothbardianism of his thought in this classic. It is not only an excellent treatise on the history of the law; it is an essential treatise for understanding the true relationship between law and free economies.
There is no question that Leoni's contribution has been unjustly overlooked. The availability of this work helps to rectify this situation.
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About this book and this copy
- Is Freedom and the Law free to download?
- Yes. The complete 214-page PDF, EPUB, and Kindle downloads directly from this page (12.7 MB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
- How long is Freedom and the Law?
- 214 pages, 14 chapters, and about 61,445 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is Freedom and the Law in the public domain?
- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
- Who wrote Freedom and the Law?
- Bruno Leoni (1913–1967) was Professor of Legal Theory and the Theory of the State at the University of Pavia, a practicing lawyer, founder and editor of the journal Il Politico, newspaper columnist, and secretary and president of the Mont Pelerin Society. This archive holds 3 of Leoni's works.
What's in it
14 chapters · 61,445 words · free to read here
- Freedom and the Law
- Foreword
- I. Which Freedom?
- II. "Freedom" and "Constraint"
- III. Freedom and the Rule of Law
- IV. Freedom and the Certainty of the Law
- V. Freedom and Legislation
- VI. Freedom and Representation
- VII. Freedom and the Common Will
- VIII. Some Difficulties Analyzed
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About this edition
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