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• 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)

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
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• 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)
• Crito, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
• Crito, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• 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
• De l'Esprit des Loix (4 volumes in French; 1769-1784), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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

• 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 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

• 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)

• 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 Gravisssimorum 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)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)
• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

• History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), ed. by June Starr and Jane Fishburne Collier (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Catholic Conception of International Law: Francisco de Vitoria, Founder of the Modern Law of Nations; Francisco Suárez, Founder of the Modern Philosophy of Law in General and in Particular of the Law of Nations (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1934), by James Brown Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du Droit des Gens et des Relations Internationales (in French, 18 volumes (some in the second edition); Brussels: Meline, Cans and Co., 1861-1870), by F. Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romance of the Law Merchant: Being an Introduction to the Study of International and Commercial Law, With Some Account of the Commerce and Fairs of the Middle Ages (London: Sweet and Maxwell Ltd., 1923), by Wyndham Anstis Bewes, contrib. by Richard Atkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Anti-Evolutionist Points of View: Roman Law, Classical Slavery, Social Conditions (Oxford: Parker and Co., 1890), by Emil Reich (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)

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

• 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)
• The British Tradition in Canadian Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #21; London: Stevens and Sons, 1969), by Bora Laskin (PDF in the UK)

• Our Legal Heritage: King Aethelbert - King George III, 600 AD-1776 (4th edition, 2002), by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg text)
• Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years, 600-1600 (second edition, 1999), by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg text)
• The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (second edition), by Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster
• 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

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