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  • Title: Center for Libertarian Studies records
    Date (bulk): 1977-1984
    Collection Number: 96043
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (1.9 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, reports, conference papers, draft journal articles, proposals, agenda, and financial records relating to libertarianism.
    Creator: Center for Libertarian Studies
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1996.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Center for Libertarian Studies records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Historical Note

    The Center for Libertarian Studies (CLS), an American non-profit organization for the promotion of libertarianism and libertarian research, was founded in 1976 by Murray N. Rothbard and Burton S. Blumert. The organization developed from the Libertarian Scholars Conferences and was headquartered in New York, New York, where most of its early conferences were held. The organization later moved to Burlingame, California.
    The Center for Libertarian Studies held events such as conferences, seminars, symposia, dinners, and other meetings where libertarian scholars spoke, including Murray N. Rothbard, Llewelyn (Lew) Rockwell, Jr., Dom Armentano, Earl Ravenal, Henry Mark Holzer, Wendy McElroy, Randy Barnett, and Richard Epstein. In 1982, Rothbard and Blumert, along with Lew Rockwell, went on to found the Ludwig von Mises Institute to further libertarian research and study in Austrian economics, freedom, and peace.
    The CLS published the newsletter In Pursuit of Liberty, along with various CLS-sponsored papers, articles and monographs. The Journal of Libertarian Studies is a scholarly, peer-reviewed title that the CLS published from 1977 to 2000; after that time the Mises Institute took over the publication. Additionally, the CLS founded the Ludwig von Mises Fellowship awarding achievement in Libertarian scholarship.
    Murray N. Rothbard died in 1995. Burton S. Blumert retired in 2008 and died in March 2009.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The collection includes correspondence, reports, conference papers, journal articles and drafts, proposals, organizational rosters, mailing lists, agenda, ephemera, budgets and financial records, photographs, and printed matter relating to libertarianism and its socio-political impact, covering topics such as immigration, education, economics, philosophy, and non-violence.

    Related Collection(s)

    Gottfried Haberler Papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
    Libertarian Party of California Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
    Mont Pèlerin Society Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
    "Inventory of the private papers of Ludwig Von Mises," 1978. Stanford University Library.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Free enterprise
    Liberty
    Libertarianism
    Libertarianism -- Research