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N. Stephan Kinsella Libertarian-related Bio
October 2006
I'm from a small town near Baton Rouge, Lousiana, and received B.S. and M.S. degrees
in electrical engineering from LSU in Baton Rouge (1987, 1990, respectively).
I received my law degree from Paul M. Hebert Law
Center of LSU in 1991.
I then lived in London for the 1991-92 school year, to study
international law at King's College London-University of
London; I received
my LL.M. (masters in law) in international business law in 1992. I'm married to Cindy DeLaney; we have one child.
I have been interested in libertarian matters since 1983 or so (thanks
in part to the influence of Ayn Rand, later
Rothbard, Mises, and others).
After a brief semi-Objectivist phase, in early college I discovered Rothbard, Hazlitt, Bastiat,
Mises, the Tannehills, etc. This led me to veer more towards libertarianism, and then to anarcho-capitalism. Later I began to put more emphasis on Austrian economics and paleolibertarian insights of
Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Rockwell.
I've written on libertarian rights and related
topics such as legal theory, as well as mainstream legal topics, since 1991. I am actively
involved with the Mises Institute. I am
especially interested in rights theory, Austrian economics,
anarcho-capitalist theory, and applications of libertarian principles
to legal topics, such as contract theory, inalienability,
property law, intellectual property, punishment
theory, and the like.
Long term goals include writing further articles on these and related matters. My forthcoming book is tentatively
titled The Ethics of Action: Fundamentals of Libertarian Legal Theory (Mises Institute, forthcoming 2007), which gathers my rights and law-related
articles together, with some new ones. Many of these writings rely
on my own rights theories, strongly influenced by Hoppe and based on the concept of "estoppel."
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