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• Jurisprudence
• Early works to 1800

• Tractatus de Legibus, ac Deo Legislatore in Decem Libros Distributus (in Latin; Lyon: H. Cardon, 1613), by Francisco Suárez (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Our Legal System and How it Operates: Five Lectures Delivered at the University of Michigan, February 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, 1948 on the Thomas M. Cooley Lectureship, Enlarged and Revised (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1951), by Burke Shartel (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• The Elements of Jurisprudence (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1880), by Thomas Erskine Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elements of Jurisprudence (10th edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; London and New York: H. Frowde, 1906), by Thomas Erskine Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elements of Jurisprudence (11th edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; London and New York: H. Frowde, 1910), by Thomas Erskine Holland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Elements of Jurisprudence (12th edition; New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1917), by Thomas Erskine Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jurisprudence: or, The Theory of the Law (London: Stevens and Haynes, 1902), by John W. Salmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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
• De l'Esprit des Loix (4 volumes in French; 1769-1784), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spirit of Laws (2 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896-1897), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by J. V. Prichard, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1901), by James Bryce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (New York and London: Oxford University Press, American branch, c1901), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dial of Destiny (Boston: Roxburgh Pub. Co., c1911), by Frederick Luther Koontz, illust. by Tinsley Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Columbia Law Review (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Law Review (partial serial archives)

• Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal (and predecessor title, 1980-) (full serial archives)

• Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence At Century's End (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Gary Minda (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Nancy Levit (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Tanja A. Börzel (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)
• Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Dale Stephens and Paul Babie (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), ed. by Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, contrib. by Martha Minow, Kathryn Abrams, Judy Scales-Trent, Carol Sanger, Angela P. Harris, Linda Brodkey, Michelle Fine, Elizabeth Cullingford, Susan Estrich, Rita Copeland, Margaret Anne Doody, Christine L. Krueger, and Anne Tierney Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)
• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

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

• The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Chris Thornhill (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Ronen Shamir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• 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)
• Les Lois de l'Ordre Social (2 volumes in French; 1849-1850), by F. Schützenberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Legal Studies (c2014), by Archie Zariski (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

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