Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 020.
This is lecture 3 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” I'll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast in upcoming days.
This lecture's topic is "Applications I: Legal Systems, Contract, Fraud," and discusses:
Legislation and Law
The significance of Roman Law
Contract Theory
“written” agreements
Inalienability
Breach of contract
Debtor’s Prison
For slides for all six lectures, plus extensive hyperlinked suggested reading material, see this Libertarian Standard post. For a listing of the syllabus and topics covered in each lecture, see this Mises blog post.
For more information, see my Mises Daily article "Introduction to Libertarian Legal Theory," and Danny Sanchez's post Study Libertarian Legal Theory Online with Stephan Kinsella.
Update: The videos of all six lectures are now available here; the video for this particular lecture is embedded below.
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