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Butler Shaffer is an influential libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher, social historian and columnist.He regards the state as a coercive institution, destructive of man's better nature and institutionalising of war.

Butler Shaffer is a Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law, and a member of the Colorado and Nebraska State Bars. In 2002, he was named as the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law in "recognition of his outstanding contributions to legal education and scholarship". He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938 and of Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival. His latest book is Boundaries of Order.

Following graduation from law school, Professor Shaffer was a labor relations consultant to the Midwest Employers Council in Lincoln, Nebraska, and went on to establish a private law practice in Omaha. He subsequently joined the firm of Nelson, Harding, Marchetti, Leonard & Tate, and then began a career in academia at the University of Nebraska College of Business Administration where he taught courses in business and law.