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(February 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Part of a series on Libertarianism in the United States Origins Age of Enlightenment Classical liberalism Individualist anarchism in the United States Concepts Anti-imperialism Argumentation ethics Civil libertarianism Counter-economics Decentralization Departurism Economic freedom Evictionism Free market Free-market environmentalism Free migration Free trade Free will Freedom of association Freedom of contract Homestead principle Individuality Individualism Libertarianism Liberty Limited government Localism Marriage privatization Natural and legal rights Non-aggression principle Non-interventionism Non-politics Non-voting Polycentric law Private defense agency Private property Public choice theory Restorative justice Self-ownership Single tax Small government Spontaneous order Stateless society Tax resistance Title-transfer theory of contract Voluntary association Voluntary society Schools Austro-libertarianism Bleeding-heart libertarianism Christian libertarianism Consequentialist libertarianism Geolibertarianism Green libertarianism Natural-rights libertarianism Neo-libertarianism Paleolibertarianism Technolibertarianism Theory Agorism Anarcho-capitalism Autarchism Constitutionalism Fusionism Libertarian feminism Left-wing market anarchism Libertarian conservatism Libertarian paternalism Minarchism Libertarian transhumanism Panarchism Propertarianism Voluntaryism Economics Austrian School Economic liberalism Fiscal conservatism Georgism Laissez-faire Neoliberalism Supply-side economics People Amash Barnett Block Brennan Caplan Carson Chartier Chodorov Chomsky Epstein Friedman (David) Friedman (Milton) Gillespie Goldwater Hazlitt Heinlein Hess Hoppe Hospers Huemer Johnson Jorgensen Kinsella Konkin III Long Machan McElroy Mencken Mises Napolitano Nock Nolan Nozick Paterson Paul Postrel Rand Read Rockwell Rothbard Schulman Sciabarra Sowell Spooner Stossel Thiel Thoreau Tucker Wilder Wilder Lane Williams Woods History New Left Old Right Issues Abortion Capital punishment Criticism Foreign affairs Immigration Inheritance Intellectual property Internal debates LGBT rights Objectivism Political parties Politics State Theories of law Culture Libertarian science fiction Organizations Alliance of the Libertarian Left Cato Institute Free State Project Foundation for Economic Education International Alliance of Libertarian Parties Libertarian Party Liberty International Mises Institute Reason Foundation Students for a Democratic Society Students for Liberty Works Anarchy, State, and Utopia The Ethics of Liberty For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto Free to Choose Law, Legislation and Liberty The Market for Liberty Related topics Conservatism in the United States Left-libertarianism Liberalism in the United States Libertarian Democrat Libertarian Republican Libertarianism in Hong Kong Libertarianism in South Africa Libertarianism in the United Kingdom New Right Outline of libertarianism Right-libertarianism  Liberalism portal  Libertarianism portal v t e Libertarian theories of law build upon classical liberal and individualist doctrines. The defining characteristics of libertarian legal theory are its insistence that the amount of governmental intervention should be kept to a minimum and the primary functions of law should be enforcement of contracts and social order, though social order is often seen as a desirable side effect of a free market rather than a philosophical necessity. Historically, the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek is the most important libertarian legal theorist.[citation needed] Another important predecessor was Lysander Spooner, a 19th-century American individualist anarchist and lawyer. John Locke was also an influence on libertarian legal theory (see Two Treatises of Government). Ideas range from anarcho-capitalism to a minimal state providing physical protection and enforcement of contracts. Some advocate regulation, including the existence of a police force, military, public land and public infrastructure. Geolibertarians oppose absolute ownership of land on Georgist grounds. Contents 1 Notable theorists 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Notable theorists[edit] Authors discussing libertarian legal theory include: Randy Barnett (The Structure of Liberty) Bruce L. Benson (The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State) Walter Block Frank van Dun Richard Epstein (Skepticism and Freedom) David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom) Friedrich Hayek (Law, Legislation and Liberty) Gene Healy Hans Hermann Hoppe (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) Stephan Kinsella Bruno Leoni (Freedom and the Law) Robert P. Murphy (Chaos Theory) Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia) Roger Pilon Ayn Rand (Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) Murray Rothbard (The Ethics of Liberty) Bernard Siegan (Economic Liberties and the Constitution) Linda and Morris Tannehill (The Market for Liberty) See also[edit] Libertarianism portal Argumentation ethics Classical liberalism Constitutional economics Equality before the law Judicial activism Law and economics Libertarianism Outline of libertarianism Philosophy of law Polycentric law Rule according to higher law References[edit] Randy Barnett (1998). The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-829324-0. Richard Epstein (2003). Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-21304-8. Friedrich Hayek (1981). Law, Legislation and Liberty: The Political Order of a Free People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-415-09868-8, ISBN 0-226-32090-1. 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