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Law -- Philosophy

Here are entered works on the philosophy of human legal systems. Works on the philosophical concept of an order, relation, or sequence of phenomena that is invariable under given conditions are entered under Law (Philosophical concept).

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• Law -- Philosophy -- Congresses
• Law -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
• Law -- Philosophy -- History
• Law -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
• Adversary system (Law)
• Compensation (Law) -- Philosophy
• Law -- Methodology
• Law and ethics
• Law, Greek -- Philosophy

• Philosophy of law

• 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)
• 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)
• Crito, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
• Crito, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• 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
• 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)
• 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 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

• 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, by Peter Suber (HTML at Earlham)

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

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

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

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