Legal System

Jeff Deist and Tate Fegley discuss law and justice under anarcho-capitalism.

The state was being even more sadistic than usual when it handed down an unwarranted life sentence to Ross Ulbricht. Many libertarians hail Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, as a hero of freedom. But did he really forward the cause of free markets?

Communities like Baltimore and Ferguson have been crippled by government regulations and the American nanny state.

The rise of government prosecutors in the US and Britain since the nineteenth century has led to many new forms of prosecutorial abuse and expansive government power. The older tradition of privately-initiated prosecution and restitution may offer a way out.

Communities like Baltimore and Ferguson have been crippled by government regulations and the American nanny state. Now is the time to allow local residents to break free of government wage controls, government schooling, and government prohibitions.

The Bruno Leoni Lecture, sponsored by Christopher P. Condon.

Antitrust law is still heavily reliant on notions of perfect competition and other static models of how markets should work. In truth, the dynamism of the marketplace does all that is necessary to prevent the rise of monopolies.

Since 2010 with the "General Anti Abuse Rule," it's becoming increasingly illegal in the United Kingdom to even minimize one's tax bill through what were once considered to be uncontroversial financial planning techniques.

The US, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and other states are racing to take control of the Arctic Ocean. Outside of a few tiny outposts, however, these states have never "homesteaded" the region, so their claims of true ownership are fanciful at best.