Liberty Fund logo: ama-gi, cuneiform inscription that is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty", taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

Liberty Fund, Inc., is a private, Libertarian, educational foundation presently headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. It was founded in 1960 by Pierre F. Goodrich, an Indianapolis businessman and lawyer,^[1] to pursue his personal vision of "the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals."^[2] As of 1996, Liberty Fund had over $202 million in assets. Liberty Fund is a private operating foundation and does not make grants. On its website, Liberty Fund says:

• "Each year, Liberty Fund conducts over 165 conferences throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe."
• "Liberty Fund publishes as many as 20 or more books each year."^[3]

[edit] Web site

The Fund’s web site features digital library resources, especially from a libertarian point of view, including many of the works it publishes in print editions.^[3][4]

[edit] Publications

The Liberty Fund is a major publisher of scholarly, annotated editions of classic works relating to liberty and constitutional law. Most are re-edits rather than facsimile editions. These publications include:

• Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations^[3]
• James Bryce, American Commonwealth^[3]
• Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, The Founders' Constitution^[3][5]
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation & Social Change^[3]
• John Adams, The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams^[3]
• George W. Carey and James McClellan, 1818 Gideon edition of The Federalist^[3]
• John Taylor, Tyranny Unmasked^[6]
• Heinrich Rommen, The Natural Law^[7]

[edit] Conferences and events

Conferences and events hosted by Liberty Fund include:

• American Universities and the Principles of Liberty, series of colloquia^[8]
• Conference on Frank S. Meyer's fusionism^[9]
• Colloquium in Cincinnati, Ohio, entitled “Islam and the Free Society”^[10]
• Conference on Landes and Posner’s Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law^[11]
• Colloquium in Big Sky, Montana, co-sponsored program with the Property and Environment Research Center, entitled "Self-Interest, Incentives, and the Environment"

[edit] See also

• Federalist Society
• Cato Institute
• Constitution Society
• Independent Institute
• Independence Institute

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Liberty Fund official website
• Online Library of Liberty - Liberty Fund's online library
• Lawbook Exchange — Publisher of facsimile editions of classic law works

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