Friedrich A. Hayek, distinguished scholar and Nobel laureate, has long been recognized as the moral and intellectual spokesman for classic liberalism and a free society. In January, 1976, a conference on the University of San Francisco campus convened to explore the implications of Hayek's legal and political philosophy. From that conference Robert L. Cunningham has selected the best papers for presentation in this book.
Three of the participants, "Joseph Raz, William Letwin," and "Gottfried Dietze," discuss the values represented by the rule of law. Raz analyzes the ideal of the rule of...