American libertarian author (1933?2014)
Leonard P. Liggio
(July 5, 1933 ? October 14, 2014) was a
classical liberal
author, research professor of law at
George Mason University
and executive vice president of the
Atlas Network
in
Fairfax, Virginia
.
Career
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In 1965, Liggio gave lectures with Russell Stetler on "Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism: The Ideological Question in Vietnam" for the newly founded
Free University of New York
.
[1]
He provided editorial direction for
Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought
, a periodical published by the
Cato Institute
from 1978 to 1979, then by the
Institute for Humane Studies
from 1980 to 1982.
[2]
[3]
Liggio was a visiting professor of law at the
Francisco Marroquin University
in
Guatemala City
, at the Academia Istropolitana in Bratislava (
Slovakia
), at the Institute for Political and Economic Studies (
Georgetown University
) and at the
University of Aix-en-Provence
, France. He was executive director of the
John Templeton Foundation
[4]
Freedom Project at the
Atlas Network
, where he led the International Freedom Project from 1998 to 2003. He was a distinguished senior scholar with the
Institute for Humane Studies
, where he served as director of Programs in History and Social Theory from 1974 to 1977, as executive vice-president from 1979 to 1980 and then as president from 1980 to 1989. Liggio served the Humane Studies Foundation as chairman from 1980 to 1994, and then as vice-chairman from 1994 to 1998.
International activities
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Liggio had an international influence. In 1958, he attended his first meeting of the
Mont Pelerin Society
in the United States, held at
Princeton University
. He became a member of the program committee for the society's 1994 meeting at
Cannes
in 1992. In 1996, he became its treasurer until 2000 as well as a member of its Program and Planning Committee for the 1998 Society meeting in Washington, D.C., and of its board of directors until 2006. He became the chairman of its program committee for the 2002 meeting in
London
, England. He was then vice-president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2000 to 2002 and its president from 2002 to 2004. He has been senior vice-president since 2004 and due to leave in 2006.
Liggio was a trustee with the
Competitive Enterprise Institute
since 1994
[5]
and the Institute for Economic Studies-Europe in Aix-en-Provence since 1999. From 1988 to 1998, he had been a trustee of the
Philadelphia Society
, of which he was president from 1992 to 1993 and from 1994 to 1995. He had been also a trustee with the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe in Paris from 1989 to 1999 and of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty from 1990 to 1999. He also served on the boards of a number of other think tanks:
- Member of the international advisory council, The Social Affairs Unit, Morley House, London, since 1994;
- Member, board of trustees, Liberty Fund;
- Member, advisory council, Acton Institute, Rome, Italy;
[5]
- Member, advisory council, Toqueville Institute, Paris, France;
- Member, advisory council, Hayek Institute, Vienna, Austria;
- Member, scientific council, Institut Turgot, Paris, France;
- Member of the honorary board of trustees, Fundacion Burke,
[6]
Spain;
- Member, editorial board, Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e Economia Personalista,
[7]
Brazil.
As part of the circle of anti-state libertarians led by
Murray Rothbard
during the 1950s, he played an important role in the development of
modern libertarian philosophy in the United States
.
[8]
He was also a member of the
Philadelphia Society
.
[9]
Editorial activities
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Liggio was a member of the editorial board at the
Cato Journal
since 1981, of the
American Journal of Jurisprudence
at
Notre Dame Law School
since 1995 and of
Markets & Morality
since 2000.
He was the editor of
Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought
from 1978 to 1982.
In 1965, with
Murray Rothbard
and George Resch, Liggio created
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought
, a publication which emphasized "common philosophical bonds uniting the anarchism and isolationism of the
Old Right
, and the instinctive
pacifistic
anarchism
characterizing the
New Left
in the middle sixties".
[10]
Death
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Liggio died on October 14, 2014.
[5]
[11]
He was a Catholic.
[12]
Bibliography
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Articles by Leonard Liggio
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- "The Heritage of the Spanish Scholastics"
,
Religion and Liberty
, January?February 2000.
- "Christianity, Classical Liberalism are Liberty's Foundations"
,
Religion and Liberty
, September?October 1996.
- "Freedom and Virtue"
, review of
Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
by George W. Carey (Ed.),
Religion and Liberty
, September?October 1998.
- Hamowy, Ronald
, ed. (2008).
"Taft, Robert A. (1889?1953)"
.
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage
;
Cato Institute
. p. 499.
doi
:
10.4135/9781412965811
.
ISBN
978-1412965804
.
OCLC
750831024
.
Articles about Leonard Liggio
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References
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- ^
Berke, Joseph
(29 October 1965), "The Free University of New York",
Peace News
: 6?7
as reproduced in
Jakobsen, Jakob (2012).
Anti-University of London?Antihistory Tabloid
. London: MayDay Rooms. pp. 6?7.
- ^
Kelley, John L. (1997).
Bringing the market back in : the political revitalization of market liberalism
. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 72.
ISBN
9780230372702
.
OCLC
759110547
.
- ^
Riggenbach, Jeff (2009).
Why American History Is Not What They Say
. Ludwig von Mises Institute. p. 98.
ISBN
9781610163040
.
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"Home"
.
templeton.org
.
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a
b
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Chafuen, Alejandro
(October 15, 2014).
"Leonard Liggio (1933-2014): A Scholar For The Free World"
.
Forbes
. Retrieved
October 16,
2014
.
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"Fundacion Burke ≫ Inicio"
. Archived from
the original
on 2008-02-15
. Retrieved
2020-02-26
.
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"CIEEP :: Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e Economia Personalista"
.
www.cieep.org.br
. Archived from
the original
on 16 May 2008
. Retrieved
12 January
2022
.
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The Circle Bastiat
- ^
"Archived copy"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2012-01-18
. Retrieved
2012-05-05
.
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"Leonard P. Liggio Literature Archive"
.
Mises Institute
.
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Doherty, Brian
(October 14, 2014).
"Leonard Liggio, R.I.P."
Reason
.com
. Retrieved
October 16,
2014
.
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"Leonard Liggio, RIP"
. 21 October 2014.
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