ABSTRACT
Left-libertarianism is a theory of justice that grounds justice in moral property rights. Left- libertarianism rests on two central claims: full initial self-ownership for all agents, and egalitarian ownership of natural resources. In a recent review essay of a two-volume anthology on left- libertarianism, Barbara Fried has insightfully laid out most of the core issues that confront left-libertarianism. Fried and others have suggested that the notion of full self-ownership is inherently indeterminate and has few concrete implications. All versions are, however, committed to full self-ownership and to some kind of egalitarian ownership of natural resources. Full private ownership of an object consists of a full set of the following ownership rights: control rights over the use of the object; rights to compensation if someone uses the object without one's permission; enforcement rights; rights to transfer these rights to others; and immunity to the non-consensual loss of any of the rights of ownership.
