Private Protection Agencies and Infectious Diseases

Emergencies critically threaten rights under constitutionally limited government, but before 2020, little scholarship considered the threat posed by a pandemic. COVID-19 has led governments to impose unprecedented restrictions on personal and economic freedom, even in developed and largely free nations. To explore how institutions might more effectively protect individual rights during a pandemic, this paper examines how private protection agencies under libertarian anarchy might deal with demands for protection from a disease in privately owned public spaces.