In a just society, what would a proper legal system look like?
I don’t know of any attempts to answer this question from the perspective that a just society is a libertarian socialist one. I guess that’s due to the fact that there’s no real agreement on what such a society would look like. Since law is a human, social, political, and economic institution, you probably need to know something about what the social, political and economic relations between people are before you know what kinds of disputes would arise that would find resolution in a legal system. And in my view, until we have a libertarian society we won’t have detailed knowledge of what humans are like.
Nevertheless, I think it makes sense to think about such things. Political figures like Michael Albert and Murray Bookchin have spent a lot of time thinking and writing about possible political and economic structures that are rooted in and consistent with socialist values. I think it makes good sense to think about what dispute resolution and other functions of law would look like in a libertarian socialist society.
