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Frank van Dun (b. 1947) studied law and philosophy at the University of Ghent. He began his career as a researcher at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (Brussels), where he worked on the foundation of logic.
In 1974 he became a teaching and research assistant at the Seminary of General Jurisprudence of the Law Faculty of the University of Ghent.
In 1982 he obtained the degree of Geaggre-geerde voor het Hoger Onderwijs in de rechtsfilosofie en de rechtstheorie, having publicly defended his dissertation which was published in 1983 in Antwerp as Het Funda-menteel rechtsbeginsel. Een essay over de grondslagen van het recht [The Fundamental Principle of Rights: An Essay on the Founda-tions of Law].
In 1986 he joined the Law Faculty of Uni-versiteit Maastricht, to teach and do research in the fields of philosophy of law, logic, history of ideas, law and econo-mics and fiscal theory. He is the author of De Utopische Verleiding (with Hans Crombag, Amsterdam 1997) and Mens, Burger, Fiscus (Maastricht, 2000). [The foregoing was taken from the Law Faculty of Universiteit Maastricht website.]
In 2007, Professor van Dun published his first novel In the Shadow of the Prodigy [2007].
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Dead End Street Blues [2009]
Not Really a Libertarian Argument against Open Immigration [2008]
Concepts of Order [2007]
The Perfect Law of Freedom [2004]
It Usually Begins at Home [2003; autobiographical]
Against Libertarian Legalism: A Comment on Kinsella and Block [2003]
The Modern Business Corporation versus the Free Market? [2003]
Human Dignity: Reason or Desire? Natural Rights versus Human Rights [2001]
Philosophical Statism and the Illusion of Citizenship: Reflections on the Neutral State [2000]
The Lawful and the Legal [1996]
Economics and the Limits of Value-Free Hayek and Natural Law: The Humean Connection [1994]