KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 001. See also: PFP098 | Stephan Kinsella, The (State's) Corruption of (Private) Law (PFS 2012) I delivered this speech in September 2012 for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey. The audio of my speech was corrupted due to a technical error, so I re-recorded a version of the speech; audio and streaming below. For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently. (This is the inaugural entry to my new podcast, Kinsella on Liberty.) The talk was largely based on two previous papers: “Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (Summer 1995), p. 132 Condensed version: Legislation and Law in a Free Society,” Mises Daily (Feb. 25, 2010) Update: see also Is English Common Law Libertarian? and KOL129 | Speech to Montessori Students: “The Story of Law: What Is Law, and Where Does it Come From?”  (Powerpoint; PDF) (( Update 2: see Repealing the Laws of Physics, with this amusing, possibly apocryphal, anecdote: "Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries and a LNG tank at big as a car to make that happen and that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from...The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here) "These laws of physics? Who's rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of the others wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort of issues"." )) [PFS; TLS]