The Market for Law

POLICY FORUM
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Noon (Luncheon to Follow)

Featuring David Friedman, Author, Law's Order and The Machinery of Freedom; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.

Mount Vernon Place, Undercroft Auditorium, 900 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001

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Is there a market for good law? Without the state providing law, could it be offered by multiple, private, and competing agencies? David Friedman, professor of law at Santa Clara University, explored this idea in his classic 1973 book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. But in the years since, he's revised and strengthened some of his theories. In this talk, Friedman will offer these new ideas from the last 30 years of thinking about the market for law.

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