Leonard Liggio
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Leonard Liggio (born July 5, 1933) is a libertarian author, research professor of law at George Mason University, and executive vice president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia. Professor Liggio is chairman of the Advisory Council of The Salvatori Center for Academic Leadership at The Heritage Foundation. Leonard P. Liggio is a Distinguished Senior Scholar with the Institute for Humane Studies, where he served as president from 1980 to 1989. Professor Liggio is a trustee with the Acton institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan and with the Philadelphia Society, where he twice served as President (1992–93, 1994–95). Liggio is currently a director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and serves on the boards of a large number of other libertarian think-tanks.
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 America. In 1965, Rothbard, Liggio and George Resch 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."
Leonard Liggio has an international influence. In 1958, Liggio attended his first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in America, held at Princeton University. He would later serve as the Society's president from 2002 to 2004. He is visiting professor of Law at the Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City and at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France (close to his friend Jacques Garello).