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Law and ethics

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• Law -- Philosophy

• Law and ethics -- Early works to 1800
• Law and ethics -- Fiction

• Ethics and law
• Law and morals
• Morals and law

• Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Michel Rosenfeld (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• English Law and the Moral Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #4; London: Stevens and Sons, 1953), by Arthur L. Goodhart (PDF in the UK)

• The Doctor and Student: or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England, Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together With Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity Thereof (with two added pieces on suits in chancery by subpoena; Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1874), by Christopher Saint German, ed. by William Muchall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Strange Career of Bishop Sterling: A Novel (published under "Stephen Endicott" pseudonym; New York: Meteor Press, 1932), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, c1998), by Frédéric Bastiat, trans. by Dean Russell, contrib. by Walter E. Williams, Richard M. Ebeling, and Sheldon Richman (PDF at fee.org)
• The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Alan Brudner (HTML at UC Press)
• Law in Everyday Life (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), ed. by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom and the Law (third edition, 1991), by Bruno Leoni (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• 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)
• Justice (Nomos VI; New York: Atherton Press, 1963), ed. by Carl J. Friedrich and John W. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Notions Fondamentales du Droit Privé: Essai Critique (in French; Paris: A. Rousseau, 1911), by René Demogue
  • page images at Gallica
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• Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)
• Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Michel Rosenfeld (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Die Rechtsidee im Frühen Griechentum: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Werdenden Polis (in German; Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1921), by Victor Ehrenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rechtsnormen und Kulturnormen (Strafrechtliche Abhandlungen 50, in German; Breslau: Schletter, 1903), by Max Ernst Mayer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Fragment on Government, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at McMaster)
• The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1921), by Benjamin N. Cardozo (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Compensatory Justice (Nomos XXXIII; New York and London: New York University Press, 1991), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1887), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
• De l'Esprit des Lois, by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (multiple editions)
• Crito, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
• Crito, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• Legal Philosophy From Plato to Hegel (originally published 1949; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Huntington Cairns (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)
• Nomos (partial serial archives)
• Natural Law Forum (full serial archives)
• Archiv für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie (partial serial archives)

• Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change (c1990), by Peter Suber (PDF at Harvard)

• Judicial Rhapsodies: Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court (Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2023), by Doug Coulson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States, by United States Department of Justice (partial serial archives)

• Responsa: In Quibus Arduae Inprimis, Tam Spiritualium, Quam Secularium, Civilium et Criminalium Causarum, Quaestiones, Atque Incidentes Quotidie Gravissimorum Negotiorum Controversiae, Iodicio Exquisitissimo, Diligentiaq, Summa, Pertractantur (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; Frankfurt am Main, Germany: N. Hoffmann and P. Kopffij, 1608-1609), by Jakob Thoming, contrib. by Abel Strasburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), ed. by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Mélanie Méthot (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Die Rechtsidee im Frühen Griechentum: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Werdenden Polis (in German; Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1921), by Victor Ehrenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Carl Schmitt's European Jurisprudence (Baden-Baden: Nomos, c2022), ed. by Armin von Bogdandy, Reinhard Mehring, and Adeel Hussain (PDF with commentary at Nomos eLibrary)