Bruno Leoni

Bruno Leoni was born in Italy in 1913. He studied law and became a professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Pavia in 1945, and from 1948 to 1960 he was dean of its department of political sciences. During the Second World War he served with 'A Force', an organization that helped rescue prisoners of war in Italy after 1943. He founded and edited the political science journal Il Politico, and was active in the Mont Pelerin Society, an international association of free-market economists and thinkers, serving as its secretary and later its president. Influenced by the Austrian school of economics, Leoni argued in his best-known book, Freedom and the Law (1961), that just as a central planner lacks the knowledge spread through a market, a legislator lacks the knowledge that builds up in case law decided by judges. He held that law grown gradually through courts, as in the common law, is more predictable and better protects individual liberty. Leoni was killed by a business associate at Alpignano, near Turin, in 1967.

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