Leoni Revisited: Freedom and the Laws (original) (raw)

This paper revisits Bruno Leoni's treatise, Freedom and the Law, fifty years after its introduction, to compare its insights with the contemporary structure of constitutional law. It aims to reconcile Leoni's focus on freedom, understood as the absence of external constraint, with modern legal pluralism and the evolving role of law in the European Union. Through this comparative analysis, it seeks to highlight how current positive law can still reflect and facilitate liberty within a complex legal landscape.