Consider the following: a major United States city has witnessed a recent upswing in violent crime. Generally, U.S. crime levels are still much lower than their peak in the early 90’s, but many...
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Gary Chartier is an American legal scholar who currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra U...
Boudewijn Bouckaert is a Belgian law professor.
David Davenport is a research fellow emeritus at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and is the former president of Pepperdine University. He was both a professor of law and public poli...
James Stephen (1758 – 1832) was an English lawyer and abolitionist. He was a defender of the mercantile system and government controlled trade. After working in St. Kitts, he became active as a...
Richard H. Helmholz (1940 - ) is the Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.
Stephen P. Halbrook, an attorney in Fairfax, Virginia, is author of The Founders’ Second Amendment and That Every Man Be Armed, among other books.
James R. Stoner, Jr. is the Hermann Moyse, Jr. Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Comm...
Adam J. Macleod is Professor of Law at Faulkner University, Jones School of Law and the author of Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Michael S. Greve is a Professor of law at Antonin Scalia Law School and author of The Upside-Down Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Henry Olsen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a columnist at The Washington Post. He has previously served as a Vice President at the American Enterprise Institute and...
Brandon R. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Law and Society at The School of Public Affairs and Administration at The University of Kansas and a former Pre and Postdoctoral fellow at the Politi...
This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from Sir William Blackstone’s *Commentari...
Dane Starbuck is a native of Winchester, Indiana, an attorney practicing law in Carmel, Indiana, and serves as a director of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Trained in both economics and law, Ljubo Sirc united the perspective of a scholar with personal experience to observe firsthand the dangers of communist regimes.
Bruce Smith (1851-1937) was an Australian Barrister and a Member of the Parliament of New South Wales in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
William Smith was born in South Carolina in 1762. He was elected as a Republican to the state senate from 1803 to 1808, and was elected judge of the South Carolina circuit court from 1808 to 1816...
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a legal theorist, abolitionist, and radical individualist who started his own mail company in order to challenge the monopoly held by the US government. He wrote ...
Stein was Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queen’s College. He wrote on legal history, Roman law, legal evolution, and was an editor of the Glasgow e...
Bruce Frohnen is assistant professor of law at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan.