1st Edition

Classical Foundations of Liberty and Property Liberty, Property, and the Law

Edited By Richard A. Epstein Copyright 2000
420 Pages
by Routledge

420 Pages
by Routledge

The materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics,law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: Liberty, Property and the Law. Stated in this general form, this topic is as broad as law itself. The relationship of liberty andproperty to the law surfaces whenever and wherever... Read more

Series Introduction, Volume Introduction 1 Excerpts from Politics,Excerpts from The Institute of Justinian, Excerpts from Leviathan, "Of Property" from The Second Treatise of Government, Excerpts from A Treatise of Human Nature, ,"Of Occupation" from Lectures on Jurisprudence, Excerpts from Commentaries on the Laws of England, "Of Security" and "Opposition Between Security and Equality", "Property", Note to His Speech on the Right of Suffrage, Property and Law, "Proletarians and Communists" from The Communist Manifesto, "Introductory" and "Applications "from On Liberty and Other Essays, Economics v. Socialism, The Period of Collectivism, Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract, The Historical Evolution of Property, in Fact and in Idea.

Biography

Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.