Hayek

October 18, 2012

To Track or Not to Track?

There was an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend about the brewing fight around “do not track” features of internet browsers (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer) that are meant to tell websites visited by the user who has enabled the features not to collect information about the user’s activity for the Continue reading

New Technologies

Fuller, Hayek, internet, legal development, legislation, social ordering
October 1, 2012

Right Answer Romantics

I was re-reading F.A. Hayek’s discussion of the common law in Chapters 4 and 5 of Rules and Order, the first volume of his Law, Legislation and Liberty, and was struck by something I had missed when I first read it four years ago while working on a thesis on common-law constitutionalism. When deciding a case Continue reading

Legal philosophy, The Justice System

common law, Dworkin, Hayek, judges, right answer thesis