Abstract
The Annual Meeting of Legal Philosophy 2004 was held in Hiroshima on November 13-14, 2004, under the auspice of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy (JALP). Its general theme was “Libertarianism and Legal Theory”.
The concept of liberty or freedom has been discussed in philosophy of law in many different ways, but JALP had not yet devoted an annual meeting to this topic. In order to fill this gap, libertarianism both in theory and practice was focused on in this meeting, because libertarianism can be considered to be a purified version of classical liberalism as contrary to contemporary welfare liberalism. 7 speakers and 2 commentators were asked to make clear evaluations of libertarianism.
