Freedom And The Law by Peter Leoni
An argument that individual liberty is best preserved when law develops spontaneously through custom and adjudication rather than being manufactured by legislatures. It warns that proliferating statutes and majority-driven policymaking erode predictability and invite coercion, undermining the rule of law. Through historical and comparative examples across civil and common law traditions, it illustrates how decentralized, case-based reasoning discovers norms that reflect social expectations. It urges legal systems to emulate market-like, bottom-up processes to better protect freedom and limit political power.
- Published
- 1961
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-300
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - La libertà e la legge
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