Freedom Through Law

Robert L. Hale

Published by Columbia University Press 1952

Freedom Through Law

Public Control of Private Governing Power

Robert L. Hale

https://doi.org/10.7312/hale91222

Overview
Contents

About this book

Looks at the question of the distribution of economic liberty in the broad sense of freedom from restrictions on economic activities as consumers or producers.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Part One. Introduction
I. Economic Liberty and the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II. The Legal Bases of Economic Inequality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part Two. Common-Law Adjustments of Conflicting Economic Liberties
III. State and Federal Courts as Sources of Common Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
IV. Courts as Policy-Makers in the Defining of Rights and Duties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
V. Malicious Wrongs, Prima Facie Torts, and Conspiracies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
VI. Judicial Modification of Legal Duties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
VII. Extortion and Duress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part Three. The Protection which the Constitution Affords to Economic Liberty and Equality
VIII. The Process of Expounding and Enforcing the Constitution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
IX. Constitutional Provisions for the Protection of Individual Economic Interests Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
X. Constitutional and Unconstitutional Methods of Depriving Persons of Liberty or Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
XI. Constitutional Safeguards Against Private Coercive Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Part Four. Political Processes for Adjusting Conflicting Liberties
XII. The Power to Restrict One Liberty in Order to Expand Another Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
XIII. The Prices Which a State May Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
XIV. The Constitutionality of Wage Regulation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
XV. The “Fair Value” Fallacy in Rate-Making Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
XVI. Utility Regulation and Taxation as Correctives of Economic Maladjustments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
Part Five. Conclusion
XVII. Economic Liberty in a Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Table of Cases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Copyright year: 1952
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 592

eBook

Published: March 2, 1952
ISBN: 9780231882668