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July 17, 2014|Bruno Leoni, Common Law, Freedom and the Law, Friedrich Hayek, Law, Law-Legislation and Liberty

When Friedrich Hayek Met Bruno Leoni

by Todd Zywicki|

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.

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September 13, 2013|Arnold kling, Joel Kotkin, John Lukacs, Law, Law-Legislation and Liberty, NSA

Friday Roundup, September 13th

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

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…

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September 8, 2013|Common Law, Constitutionalism, Friedrich Hayek, Law-Legislation and Liberty, Social Justice, Spontaneous Order, The Constitution of Liberty

Law, Legislation and Liberty

by Eric Mack|

Friedrich Hayek
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.

August 14, 2013|17th Amendment, Administrative State, Centralization, Federalism, Friedrich Hayek, Law-Legislation and Liberty, Roland Vaubel

Restoring Federalism

by Hans Eicholz|

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.

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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