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• Protection of the Public: A New Challenge (Hamlyn Lectures, #41; London: Stevens and Sons, 1990), by Harry Woolf (PDF in the UK)

• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1975), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)
• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20; London: Stevens and Sons, 1968), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)

• Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: Experiencing Nationality Law (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, c2018), by Devyani Prabhat (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Reinventing Britain: Constitutional Change under New Labour (c2007), ed. by Andrew McDonald (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution? (Hamlyn Lectures, #52; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2001), by Anthony King (PDF in the UK)
• Constitutional Fundamentals (Hamlyn Lectures, #32; London: Stevens and Sons, 1980), by William Wade (PDF in the UK)
• Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (8th edition; London: Macmillan, 1915), by A. V. Dicey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, by John Milton (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Observations Upon a Bill, Entitled, An Act for Taking Away, and Abolishing the Heritable Jurisdictions in That Part of Great Britain Called Scotland, and for Restoring Such Jurisdictions to the Crown (Edinburgh, 1747) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The United Kingdom and Human Rights (Hamlyn Lectures, #42; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1991), by Claire Palley (PDF in the UK)
• Liberty, Law and Justice (Hamlyn Lectures, #30; London: Stevens and Sons, 1978), by J. N. D. Anderson (PDF in the UK)
• Human Rights, Serious Crime, and Criminal Procedure (Hamlyn Lectures, #53; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2002), by Andrew Ashworth (PDF in the UK)
• United Kingdom: An Agenda for Human Rights Protection (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• Protection from Power Under English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #9; London: Stevens and Sons, 1957), by John Clarke MacDermott (PDF in the UK)
• Legal Conundrums in Our Brave New World (Hamlyn Lectures, #54; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by Helena Kennedy (PDF in the UK)

• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women (1869), by Frances Power Cobbe (HTML at Indiana)

• The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 (third edition, revised; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), ed. by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitutional History of England, From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1871), by Henry Hallam (page images at MOA)
• The Constitutional History of England, From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1874), by Henry Hallam (page images at MOA)
• The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862-3), by Thomas Erskine May (page images at MOA)
• The English Constitution (second edition, 1873), by Walter Bagehot
  • PDF at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• Sources of the Constitution of the United States, Considered in Relation to Colonial and English History (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1927), by C. Ellis Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitutional History of England, From 1760 to 1860 (1882), by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, From the Reign of King Edward the Second, Unto King Richard the Third, of All the Parliaments Holden in Each Kings Reign, and the Several Acts in Every Parliament; Together With the Names and Titles of All the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons, Summoned To Every of the Said Parliaments (originally collected by Cotton, revised by Prynne; London: Printed for W. Leake, 1657), ed. by Robert Cotton and William Prynne, contrib. by Robert Bowyer and William Morrell
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (second edition, revised and in part rewritten; Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1914), by William Sharp McKechnie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Racist Murder and Pressure-Group Politics (c2000), by Norman Dennis, George Erdos, and Ahmed Al-Shahi (PDF at Civitas)

• Total Recall: How Direct Democracy Can Improve Britain (c2008), by Nick Cowen (PDF at Civitas)

• Report, Together with the Proceedings of the Convention and Other Appendices, Presented to Parliament Pursuant to Section 2(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1974, by Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (1975-1976) (HTML at CAIN)

• The Powers of the Crown in Scotland, Being a Translation, With Notes and an Introductory Essay, of George Buchanan's "De Jure Regni Apud Scotos" (1949 translation), by George Buchanan, ed. by Charles Flinn Arrowood (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• An Essay Upon Feudal Holdings, Superiorities, and Hereditary Jurisdictions, in Scotland (London: Printed for R. Lee, 1747), by Andrew MacDowall Bankton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Crime and Insanity; Murder and Its Punishment; Musings on Murder (1925), by Charles J. Darling (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)

• The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), by Sarah Tarlow (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Human Rights, Serious Crime, and Criminal Procedure (Hamlyn Lectures, #53; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2002), by Andrew Ashworth (PDF in the UK)
• The Proof of Guilt: A Study of the English Criminal Trial (Hamlyn Lectures, #7; London: Stevens and Sons, 1955), by Glanville Williams (PDF in the UK)

• Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #40; London: Stevens and Sons, 1989), by J. C. Smith (PDF in the UK)

• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)

• The Grand Jury: An Essay, Awarded the Peter Stephen Puponceau Prize of the Law Academy of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: G. T. Bisel Co., 1906), by George J. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Simple Justice (c2005), by Charles A. Murray, ed. by David Conway, contrib. by Robert Allen, John Cottingham, Christie Davies, J. C. Lester, Tom Sorell, and Vivien Stern (PDF at Civitas)

• Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet (4 volumes in 1; set did not get to all items in volume 1's projected table of contents; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884-1888), by Robert Cotton, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid, contrib. by James Howell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #40; London: Stevens and Sons, 1989), by J. C. Smith (PDF in the UK)

• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20; London: Stevens and Sons, 1968), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)
• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1975), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)

• Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law (third edition; revised from Hamlyn lecture #24; London: Stevens and Sons, 1983), by Otto Kahn-Freund, P. L. Davies, and M. R. Freedland (PDF in the UK)
• Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives (Hamlyn Lectures, #56; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2005), by B. A. Hepple (PDF in the UK)
• Labour in War Time (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1915), by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)

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