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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 221.
This is my first speech at Mises Brasil’s 2017 “V Conferência de Escola Austríaca” [5th Austrian School Conference], Mises Brasil, Universidade Mackenzie, São Paolo, Brazil (May 12–13, 2017): “State Legislation versus Law and Liberty.” The Q&A is included even though the questions are in Portugese; most answers should make sense given the context. This is a recording from my iPhone; video and higher quality audio will be linked later.
Update: See also Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society.
The Youtube is here:
The slides that I use are embedded below.
Slides used for Mises Brasil:
My original slides:
Further resources:
- KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012)
- KOL129 | Speech to Montessori Students: “The Story of Law: What Is Law, and Where Does it Come From?”
- KOL199 | Tom Woods Show: The State’s Corruption of Private Law, or We Don’t Need No Legislature
- “Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (Summer 1995), p. 132.1
- Condensed version: Legislation and Law in a Free Society,” Mises Daily (Feb. 25, 2010)
Further reading:
- Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law
- Watson, Alan, The Importance of “Nutshells”
- Herman, Shael, The Louisiana Civil Code: A European Legacy for the United States
- Giovanni Sartori, Liberty and Law
- Alan Watson, Roman Law and Comparative Law
- The Story of Law, by John M. Zane (I haven’t finished it yet but liked what read so far) (also online)
- Arthur Hogue, The Origins of the Common Law
Update: see Repealing the Laws of Physics, with this amusing, possibly apocryphal, anecdote: “Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries and a LNG tank at big as a car to make that happen and that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from…
The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here) “These laws of physics? Who’s rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of the others wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That’s why we are here, to fix these sort of issues”.”
