Jurisprudence

Here are entered works on the science of law. This heading may be divided geographically for works on the science of law in a specific place. General works on law or legal systems are entered under Law. Works on the legislative process are entered under Legislation.

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• Law
• Law -- Philosophy

• Jurisprudence -- History
• Feminist jurisprudence
• Law and economics
• Sociological jurisprudence

• Lectures on Jurisprudence (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982), by Adam Smith, ed. by Ronald L. Meek, D. D. Raphael, and Peter Stein (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Lectures on Jurisprudence: The Philosophy of Positive Law (abridged student edition; New York: Henry Holt and and Co., 1875), by John Austin, ed. by Robert Campbell (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (London: J. Murray, 1832), by John Austin (multiple formats at Google)
• Quistioni di Dritto: Trattate Nella Conclusioni, Ne' Discorsi ed in Altri Scritti Legali (2 volumes in 1, in Italian; Naples: Tipografia Prete Largo Avellino, 1869), by Niccola Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Spirit of Laws, by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent and J. V. Prichard (HTML and text at constitution.org)

• Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Victor Uribe Uran (searchable page images at Pitt)

• The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Law and Economics (third edition, 2000), by Robert Cooter and Thomas Ulen (PDF at bepress.com)
• The Strategic Constitution (prepublication version, 1999), by Robert Cooter (PDF at bepress.com)

• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (5 volumes, c1999), ed. by Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit de Geest (PDF files in Belgium)

• A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values (c2005), ed. by Robert H. Bork (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Les Lois de l'Ordre Social (2 volumes in French; 1849-1850), by F. Schützenberger (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, by David D. Friedman
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at daviddfriedman.com
  • HTML of prepublication draft at daviddfriedman.com
• Other People's Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #18; London: Stevens and Sons, 1966), by Charles James Dalrymple Shaw Kilbrandon (PDF in the UK)
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Quistioni di Dritto: Trattate Nella Conclusioni, Ne' Discorsi ed in Altri Scritti Legali (2 volumes in 1, in Italian; Naples: Tipografia Prete Largo Avellino, 1869), by Niccola Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (electronic edition, 2011), by Peter W. Martin (frame-dependent HTML at Cornell)

• Session Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials, by Alaska Legislature (partial serial archives)

• Acts of the General Assembly, by Arkansas (partial serial archives)
• Ordinances of the State Convention, Which Convened in Little Rock, May 6, 1861 (Little Rock: Johnson and Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tales From the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (2006), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (page images with commentary at Duke)

• Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Acts and Resolutions of the Third Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, held at Richmond, Va. (1861), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States of America (Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together With the Acts and Resolutions of the Three Sessions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States (bound with the Acts and Resolutions of the fourth session; Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861-1862), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America (with public and private laws for the first session of First Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters; To Which are Added Specimens of the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of Other Colonies and Some Blue-Laws of England in the Reign of James I (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1876), ed. by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Olden Blue Laws (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Coase Theorem: A Study in Economic Epistemology, by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

• The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke (3 volumes; Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003), by Edward Coke, ed. by Steve Sheppard (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)

• Treaty on European Union (aka the Maastricht Treaty) (Gutenberg text)

• Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly, by Florida (partial serial archives)

• Avis du Comité Consultatif de Jurisprudence Indienne: Publiés Avec une Préface et des Notes (ca. 1897), by French India, ed. by Leon Sorg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Blackstone's Commentaries, With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Gederal Government of the United State and of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Philadelphia: Birch and Small, 1803), by William Blackstone, contrib. by St. George Tucker (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
• Commentaries on the Laws of England (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1769), by William Blackstone (HTML at Yale)
• English Law and the Moral Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #4; London: Stevens and Sons, 1953), by Arthur L. Goodhart (PDF in the UK)
• English Law: The New Dimension (Hamlyn Lectures, #26; London: Stevens and Sons, 1974), by Leslie Scarman (PDF in the UK)
• The History of the Common Law of England, by Matthew Hale (text at McMaster)
• Judge and Jurist in the Reign of Victoria (Hamlyn Lectures, #11; London: Stevens and Sons, 1959), by C. H. S. Fifoot (PDF in the UK)
• Magna Carta, ed. by Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein (HTML at Fordham)
• Magna Carta (exemplification of 1215, with translation) (illustrated HTML with commentary at the British Library)

• Laws of His Majesty Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands, Passed by the Nobles and Representatives at Their Session (multiple volumes in one, in English and Hawaiian; Honolulu: Printed by order of the government, 1853-6), by Hawaii (page images at Google)

• Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)
• Niccola Nicolini e Gli Studii Giuridici Nella Prima Metà del Secolo XIX: Scritti e Lettere (in Italian; Naples: R. tipografia F. Giannini e Figli, 1907), by Niccola Nicolini, ed. by Fausto Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)

• Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Michel Rosenfeld (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Gregory Leyh (HTML at UC Press)

• Ye Olden Blue Laws (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

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