Philosophy of Law: The Supreme Court's Need for Libertarian Law

by Walter E. Block, Roy Whitehead

Overview

Looking at discrimination, education, environment, health and crime, this volume analyses United States Supreme Court rulings on several legal issues and proposed libertarian solutions to each problem. Setting their own liberal theory of law, each chapter discusses the law at hand, what it should be, and what it would be if their political economic philosophy were the justification of the legal practice. Covering issues such as sexual harassment, religion, markets in human organs, drug prohibition and abortion, this book is a timely contribution to classical liberal debate on law and economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030283599
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/15/2019
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, and senior fellow at the Mises Institute. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1972. He has taught at Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook, Baruch CUNY, Holy Cross and the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than 500 refereed articles in professional journals, two dozen books, and thousands of op eds. He lectures widely on college campuses, delivers seminars around the world and appears regularly on television and radio shows. He is the Schlarbaum Laureate, Mises Institute, 2011; and has won the Loyola University Research Award (2005, 2008) and the Mises Institute’s Rothbard Medal of Freedom, 2005; and the Dux Academicus award, Loyola University, 2007.

Roy Whitehead, who earned JD and LLM degrees, both from the University of Arkansas, is the Distinguished Professor of Business Law Emeritus at the University of Central Arkansas, USA. He is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Arkansas. He has authored and coauthored 26 law review articles and has published more than 100 refereed journal articles. While teaching he also served for five years as UCA’s General Counsel and seven years as UCA’s Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and Chairman of the Faculty Athletic Committee. He also chaired the Gender Equity Committee to ensure the university fully and effectively accommodated the interests and abilities of female athletes who could compete at the university level.

Table of Contents

Part I. Discrimination.- Chapter 1: Gender Equity in Athletics.- Chapter 2: Should the Government be Allowed to Discriminate?.- Chapter 3: Christian Landlords: Sinners Need Not Apply.- Chapter 4: The Boy Scouts’ Right to Discriminate.- Chapter 5: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.- Part II. Education.- Chapter 6: Forcing Some to Pay for the Free Speech of Others.- Chapter 7: Direct Payment of Scholarships to Church-Related Colleges.- Part III. Environment.- Chapter 8: The Unintended Consequences of Environmental Justice.- Chapter 9: Environmental Justice Risks in the Petroleum Industry.- Chapter 10: Environmental Takings: the Case for Full Water Privatization.- Chapter 11: The value of private water rights.- Part IV. Health.- Chapter 12: Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues.- Chapter 13: America’s Failing Drug Control Laws.- Part V. Crime.- Chapter 14: Taking the assets of the criminal to compensate victims of violence.- Chapter 15: Resolving the Abortion Controversy.- Chapter 16. The IRS Joins the Boardroom.