Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society

by Gary Chartier

Overview

This book elaborates and defends the idea of law without the state. Animated by a vision of peaceful, voluntary cooperation as a social ideal and building on a careful account of non-aggression, it features a clear explanation of why the state is illegitimate, dangerous and unnecessary. It proposes an understanding of how law enforcement in a stateless society could be legitimate and what the optimal substance of law without the state might be, suggests ways in which a stateless legal order could foster the growth of a culture of freedom, and situates the project it elaborates in relation to leftist, anti-capitalist and socialist traditions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139854474
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Gary Chartier is Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He is the author of Economic Justice and Natural Law (2009), The Conscience of an Anarchist (2011) and The Analogy of Love (2007), as well as the co-editor (with Charles W. Johnson) of Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty (2011).

Table of Contents

1. Laying foundations; 2. Rejecting aggression; 3. Safeguarding cooperation; 4. Enforcing law; 5. Rectifying injury; 6. Liberating society; 7. Situating liberation.