Anarchy and Legal Order
Law and Politics for a Stateless Society

This book elaborates and defends law without the state. It explains why the state is illegitimate, dangerous and unnecessary.

Gary Chartier (Author)

9781107661615, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 March 2014

434 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg

'Anarchy and Legal Order is currently the book to read if one wants to explore the potential and limits of natural law, nonaggression maxim, praxeology based doctrines of stateless social order. Austrian scholars of all persuasions will benefit immensely from engaging with its arguments and the intellectual precedent it creates.' Review of Austrian Economics

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.

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

Subject Areas: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Political science & theory [JPA]