ABSTRACT
THREE DECADES HAVE PASSED since Bruno Leoni delivered his Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont-McKenna College) lectures, on which his volume, Freedom and the Law, 1 was based. That volume was first published in 1961, and Leoni died in 1967. Since the early 1960s, while Leoni’s book lay dormant, two new intellectual disciplines have emerged that have reordered our thinking about man and social life: public choice, and law and economics. The first consists of the application of microeconomic analysis to political and governmental action. The second consists of the same application to the substance and procedures of law.
