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Country
  
Italy

Publication date
  
1961

Author
  
Bruno Leoni

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Language
  
Italian, English

Originally published
  
1961

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Subject
  
Politics, Law, Philosophy

Liberty books
  
Law - Legislation and Liberty, For a New Liberty, The Structure of Liberty, Educating for liberty, Rereading Power and Freedom

Freedom and the Law is Italian jurist and philosopher Bruno Leoni's most popular work. It was first published in 1961 and the 3rd edition is now made widely available through the Internet by the Online Library of Liberty [1], with permission of the George Mason University.

In this book, Leoni contended that the greatest obstacle to the Rule of Law is the problem of overlegislation. Leoni also pointed to a parallelism between the market and common law on the one hand, and socialism and legislation on the other.

Through a review of Roman doctrine and jurisprudence, Leoni shows that the Romans thought of Law as a process of discovery instead as of a set of enacted orders, and that the popular confusion between law and legislation is contemporary to our era and the advent of socialism.

Table of contents

Freedom and the Law
Introduction Chapter 1.: Which Freedom? Chapter 2.: "freedom" and "constraint" Chapter 3.: Freedom and the Rule of Law Chapter 4.: Freedom and the Certainty of the Law Chapter 5.: Freedom and Legislation Chapter 6.: Freedom and Representation Chapter 7.: Freedom and the Common Will Chapter 8.: Some Difficulties Analyzed Conclusion
The Law and Politics
Introduction Chapter 1.: The Law As Individual Claim Chapter 2.: Law and Economy In the Making Chapter 3.: The Economic Approach to the Political Chapter 4.: Voting Versus the Market

References

Freedom and the Law Wikipedia