Freedom and the Law
Author	Bruno Leoni
Country	Italy
Language	Italian, English
Subject(s)	Politics, Law, Philosophy
Publication date	1961

Freedom and the Law is the most important book written by Italian jurist and philosopher Bruno Leoni. 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

Philosophy of law
History of law

[edit] References

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