First published 2023
Legal Foundations of a Free Society
Legal Foundations of a Free Society by Stephan Kinsella is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org, licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
- Stephan Kinsella
- First published
- 2023
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- ISBN
- 979-8-9890306-2-0
- Publisher
- Papinian Press
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)
A 2023 collection gathering three decades of Stephan Kinsella's writing on libertarian legal theory: the foundations of libertarian rights, punishment and proportionality, contract and title-transfer theory, causation and responsibility, and his argument against intellectual property. Professionally typeset with cross-references, a bibliography, and an index. Released by the author under a CC0 public domain dedication.
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- How long is Legal Foundations of a Free Society?
- 32 chapters and about 304,270 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Can I reuse or republish Legal Foundations of a Free Society?
- This edition is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication), so yes, on that licence's terms. Check the deed for what attribution it requires.
- Who wrote Legal Foundations of a Free Society?
- Stephan Kinsella (born 1965) is an American libertarian writer and retired attorney. He serves as the director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom and is the author of Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023). This archive holds 2 of Kinsella's works.
What's in it
32 chapters · 304,270 words · free to read here
- Front Matter
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How I Became a Libertarian
- What Libertarianism Is
- What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist
- How We Come to Own Ourselves
- A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights
- Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights
- Defending Argumentation Ethics
- Causation and Aggression
- A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability
- Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith
- Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection
- Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer*
- Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society
- Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society
- Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Introduction to Origitent
- Conversation with Schulman about Logorights and Media-Carried Property
- Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce
- Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law
- Review of Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order, by Anthony de Jasay
- Taking the Ninth Amendment Seriously
- The Undeniable Morality of Capitalism
- On Libertarian Legal Theory, Self-Ownership, and Drug Laws
- On the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist
- Libertarianism After Fifty Years: What Have We Learned?
- Bibliography
- Index*
- About the Author
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