This year would have been Bruno Leoni’s 101st birthday but for his tragically early death in 1967. Leoni was an Italian lawyer cum academic who was one of Europe’s leading classical liberal thinkers in the post-War era. Friend to the leading classical liberals of the age—counting Hayek, Buchanan, and Alchian as friends—Leoni was not only a pioneer of law and economics thinking but also an early adopter of public choice theory.
Friday Roundup, September 13th
I've made several posts the past few weeks to Liberty Fund's upcoming Constitution Day Symposium on federalism. Regarding this important topic, our Online Library of Liberty has the deepest bench of online resources for further reading and study. Enjoy! So the current Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Eric Mack on Friedrich Hayek's great trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. If you haven't yet waded into all three volumes, then this podcast is a great introduction. For our feature review essay this week, Richard Gamble evaluates John Lukacs' latest effort, History and the Human Condition. Gamble observes that Lukacs' work demands humility…
Law, Legislation and Liberty
This Liberty Law Talk is with philosopher Eric Mack on Friedrich Hayek's 1973 magnum opus, Law, Legislation and Liberty. Hayek's significant trilogy distinguishes between law and legislation, considers the appropriate rule of judges within a spontaneous order, observes the difficulties of even defining social justice, and attempts to set forth the principles of a new constitutional order for a free people. This conversation considers at length the major ideas that Hayek advances in his incredible work on the principles of law and just order.
Friedrich HayekRestoring Federalism
In the third volume of Law Legislation and Liberty, Hayek argued that something was amiss with western constitutions. They have failed to contain the growth of government or prevent the encroachments of discretionary power. He thought it was time to rethink the constitutional structures of the free world.
