Aspects of individual liberty are considered in two recent articles, with some implications for the role played by law in working through the practical implementation of liberty in society. ‘Other People’s Liberties’ published in Ratio Juris questions whether the undeniable advantages of liberty to an individual are readily transferable to a number of individuals, relating together within a society. ‘Overcoming von Wright’s Anxiety’ published in Theoria attempts to deal with an enduring anxiety experienced by Georg Henrik von Wright throughout his engagement with deontic logic across the course of his professional life, over the apparent reducibility of permission to an absence of obligation.