Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 019.
This is lecture 2 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” The remaining lectures follow in subsequent podcast episodes.
Video, Transcript and Slides below.
This lecture's topic is "Libertarian Basics: Rights and Law-Continued," and discusses:
Anarcho-libertarianism (cont.)
Justice: Punishment and Restitution
The Case of Threats
Stalking
Spam
Torts and Negligence
Legal Positivism and Logical Positivism
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 Academy Course Page (archived).
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.)
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The videos of all six lectures are also available on this playlist.
TRANSCRIPT
Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society, Lecture 2: Libertarian Basic Rights: Rights and Law, Continued
Stephan Kinsella
Mises Academy, Feb. 7, 2011
00:00:03
STEPHAN KINSELLA: My take on this course is we have basically more than six lectures worth of material to squeeze in, which I think is good for you guys. My last course I gave, I spoke about 60 minutes per lecture, and then we talked about – we had about 30 minutes of Q&A. Last time, we spoke the entire 90 minutes plus some, and then I’m doing office hours this time on Wednesdays, which works well. So if we go the whole 90 minutes, that will – we have time to do Q&A on Wednesdays, so I think that’s working fine. So you guys are getting eight or nine weeks’ worth of lectures in this six weeks, so I think that’s fine.
00:00:47
Phil Collins, I’ve heard that. I’ve heard Tracy Byrd. I think he’s an American country singer, and when I was younger and had hair, I was called Alex Keaton or Michael J. Fox, but I don’t think there’s a resemblance. But anyway, Max, I have a couple of ideas for new courses. I’m considering doing a basic libertarian course like introduction to libertarianism, kind of following Hubert’s book a little bit. I’m not sure. I want to wait and see how this one goes and see how I could blend those two or separate those two. And there’s some kind of micro courses I have in mind too like Austrian Law and Economics, things like that, so let’s wait and see how it goes.
00:01:41
So what I’m thinking is this. Today we have more of a sane schedule to fill, and if we go the entire 90 minutes, which I don’t think we will, then as I said, I can go to Q&A on Thursdays. By the way, I had a really interesting appearance on an American podcast, which is called This Week in Law. If you go to T-W-I-T – excuse me – dot tv, twit.tv, it’s part of the TWiT or This Week in Tech network. And it was last Friday, and it’s already up, and I think it went really well. They were amazingly receptive to a lot of fairly radical libertarian ideas that I presented on the state and intellectual property and things like that. So some of you might find that of interest.
00:02:33
Okay, just before we get into the depths of this, we have 33 online now. That’s good. Is the video okay, and is the audio okay? Can you hear me? That’s the most important thing. And can you see the video? Everyone okay? It’s four past midnight for some of us, four past four in the morning for some of us, so let’s proceed.
00:02:58
Okay, so tonight’s lecture I’m calling Libertarian Basics: Rights and Law, Continued. I’m kind of following up on what was discussed last time and adding some more things. And I’m going to – and by the way, our last Q&A session at the office hours on last Wednesday was recorded as well, and the recording came out pretty good even though Danny wasn’t on boar...
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