Voluntary Law development association

1. Voluntary Law development association Just words can change the world www.vlda.org

2. Against Monopolies • Government is by definition an institution claiming an exclusive right to enforce law within a defined territory • Government laws are imposed on all in the claimed territory- None can reject the law • Government may tolerate varying degrees of private law within its territory – out of necessity

3. Private Laws • Examples include private arbitration and mediation, corporate/business governance, private property rules for public accommodation (e.g., theme parks, resorts) church governance, families, private clubs or markets • Private legal systems are limited in scope and/or poorly defined, preempted by government laws, and often dependent on government for law enforcement

4. The Need • A vision for alternative, comprehensive voluntary legal systems designed to operate independently of any statist control over dispute resolution and law enforcement • Practical, comprehensive legal codes consistent with such voluntary legal systems for study, development and eventual implementation

5. Myths or Reasonable Suppositions? • Voluntary law societies require a near absence of malicious or irrational human behavior to function • Voluntary law societies eventually devolve into governments through wars among competing enforcement organizations (driven by lust for power and/or ideological-religious conflicts) • Voluntary law societies grind the poor and destitute

6. Characteristics of a Pure VLS • Multiple modular, published legal systems voluntarily supported by different non-geographically defined communities • Multiple competing forums for dispute resolution, none with exclusive territories, supported by user fees • Multiple competing law enforcement, security, and insurance organizations, none with exclusive territories, supported by user fees

7. Transitional VLSs • VL Systems, forums (courts), enforcement, security and insurance organizations coexist with governmental organizations (legally, quasi-legally, and/or underground) • No VL organization hears or enforces a law promulgated by a monopolistic governmental organization. • VL organizations gradually and peacefully increase in scope and influence while monopolistic gov’t fades away and/or collapses (it may take centuries)

8. VL Development Association • If viable, many different alternative legal systems will be developed by different communities • VLDA will endeavor to develop and publish VL codes and inspire others to do the same • Acceptable VL codes will adhere to NAP and VL (no state) model, and include new approaches for dispute resolution and deterrence of malicious conduct in the absence of territorial monopolies (e.g., choice of law, criminal offenses, indigent parties)

9. www.vlda.org • Will accept code modules and commentary from any submitter under a specified license (e.g., Creative Commons) • Will curate, edit and classify submissions by system, subsystem, category and subcategory • Will publish processed codes and commentary in a linked hierarchical and/or relational data structure • Will receive and publish user feedback regarding published content

10. Thank YOU For listening