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Books on the Privatisation of Courts

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Justin Paston-Cooper posted on Sun, Oct 12 2008 6:09 PM

I'm sure that this has been brought up before, but I've had a look at some posts, and I haven't been able to find anything with which to answer my question. I would like to know if there have been any books written on how a privatised court system would work. Mainly, how it would address the fact that large companies may join together to choose courts partial to themselves. I've recently become very interested in libertarianism, but haven't been able to reason about how a market such as law could ever be maintained as fair to people's liberty purely by the choice of the people who pay for it.

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I've not read either of them so I can't tell you much but, Bruce Benson has a book called The Enterprise of Law and Ed Stringham has one called Anarchy and the Law.

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Anarchy and the Law is an anthology of anarchist/anarchocapitalist writings.

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I suggest Anarchy and The Law edited by Ed Stringham as well.

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I've not read either of them so I can't tell you much but, Bruce Benson has a book called The Enterprise of Law and Ed Stringham has one called Anarchy and the Law.

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Obviously everyone will want a court partial to themself, not just large companies. Why would you pay to be protected by someone that is not partial to you?

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Anarchy and the Law is an anthology of anarchist/anarchocapitalist writings.

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I suggest Anarchy and The Law edited by Ed Stringham as well.

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Thank you all for the replies. I shall look into both of the mentioned books.

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