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Contents of the Bibliography
General Works
Allen, Sir Carleton Kemp. Law in the Making. 7th ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Bellomo, Manlio. The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000–1800. Washington,
D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1995.
Berman, Harold J. Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1993.
———. Law and Revolution: The Formation
of the Western Legal Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1983.
Bryce, James Viscount. Studies in History and Jurisprudence.
2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1901.
Cairns, Huntingdon. Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1949.
Carter, James Coolidge. Law: Its Origin, Growth, and Function.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907.
Coing, Helmut. Europäisches Privatrecht. 2 vols. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1985–89.
———, ed. Handbuch der Quellen und Literatur
der neueren europäischen Privatrechtsgeschichte. 3 vols. Munich:
C. H. Beck, 1973–88.
Dawson, John P. Oracles of the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School,
1968.
Dias, R. M. W. A Bibliography of Jurisprudence. 3d ed. London: Butterworths, 1979.
Friedrich, Carl J. The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective.
2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
Hattenhauer, Hans. Europäische Rechtsgeschichte.
Heidelberg: C. F. Müller, 1992.
Kelly, J. M. A Short History of Western Legal Theory. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1992.
Lee, Guy Carleton. Historical Jurisprudence: An Introduction
to the Systematic Study of the Development of Law. London: Macmillan,
1900.
McIlwain, C. H. Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University
Press, 1947.
Morris, M. F. An Introduction to the History of the Development of Law. Washington,
D.C.: John Byrne, 1911.
Pollock, Frederick. Essays in the Law. London: Macmillan,
1922.
Pound, Roscoe. Interpretations of Legal History. New York: Macmillan, 1923.
Robinson, O. F., T. D. Fergus, and W. M. Gordon. An Introduction
to European Legal History. Abingdon: Professional Books, 1985.
Seagle, William. The History of Law. New York: Tudor Publishing, 1946.
Smith, Munroe. A General View of European Legal History and Other Papers. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1927.
Van Caenegem, R. C. An Historical Introduction to Private
Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
———. An Historical Introduction to
Western Constitutional Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Wigmore, John Henry. A Kaleidoscope of Justice: Containing
Authentic Accounts of Trial Scenes from All Times and Climes. Washington,
D.C.: Washington Law Book, 1941.
———. A Panorama of the World’s
Legal Systems. 3 vols. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1928.
Primitive Law
Diamond, A. S. The Evolution of Law and Order. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1973.
———. Primitive Law. 2d ed. London:
Longmans, Green, 1950.
———. Primitive Law, Past and Present.
London: Methuen, 1971.
Elias, Taslim Olawale. The Nature of African Customary Law.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956.
Gluckman, Max. The Ideas in Barotse Jurisprudence. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1965.
———. The Judicial Process Among the
Barotse of Northern Rhodesia. 2d ed. Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1967.
———. Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal
Society. Chicago: Aldine, 1965.
Hartland, E. Sidney. Primitive Law. London: J. and J.
Harper, 1924.
Hocart, A. M. Kings and Councillors: An Essay in the Comparative Anatomy of Human
Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Hoebel, E. Adamson. The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in
Comparative Legal Dynamics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954.
Howell, Paul Philip. A Manual of Nuer Law: Being an Account
of Customary Law, Its Evolution, and Development in the Courts Established
by the Sudan Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Kocourek, Albert, and John H. Wigmore, eds. Primitive and
Ancient Legal Institutions. Boston: Little, Brown, 1915.
Krader, Lawrence, ed. Anthropology and Early Law. New
York: Basic Books, 1967.
Llewellyn, Karl N., and E. Adamson Hoebel. The Cheyenne Way:
Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1941.
Maine, Henry Sumner. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the
Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas. 1861. Reprint,
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986.
———. Lectures on the Early History
of Institutions: A Sequel to Ancient Law. 1875. Reprint, Buffalo: W.
S. Hein, 1987.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. Crime and Custom in Savage Society.
1926. Reprint, Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams, 1982.
Pospisil, Leonard. Anthropology and Law: A Comparative Theory.
New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
Reid, John Phillip. A Law of Blood: The Primitive Law of
the Cherokee Nation. New York: New York University Press, 1970.
Ancient Near Eastern Law,
Biblical Law, and Post-Biblical Jewish Law
Amram, David Werner. Leading Cases in the Bible. Philadelphia:
Julius H. Greenstone, 1905.
Boecker, Hans Jochen. Law and the Administration of Justice
in the Old Testament. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1980.
Carmichael, Calum M. Law and Narrative in the Bible: The
Evidence of the Deuteronomic Laws and the Decalogue. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1985.
———. The Origins of Biblical Law: The
Decalogues and the Book of the Covenant. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1992.
Daube, David. Studies in Biblical Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1947.
Derrett, J. Duncan M. Law in the New Testament. London:
Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1970.
Dorff, Elliot N., and Arthur Rosett. A Living Tree: The Roots
and Growth of Jewish Law. Albany: State University of New York Press,
1988.
Driver, G. R., and John C. Mills. The Babylonian Laws.
2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952–55.
Elon, Menachem. Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles. 4 vols. Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 1994.
Golding, Martin P., ed. Jewish Law and Legal Theory.
New York: New York University Press, 1993.
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim. Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical
Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal, and Social. 4th ed. Trans. J. L. Kadushin.
3 vols. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Jewish Jurisprudence, 1923.
Kent, Charles Foster. Israel’s Laws and Legal Precedents:
From the Days of Moses to the Closing of the Legal Canon. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907.
Maimonides, Moses. The Code of Maimonides. 14 vols. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1949–80. See also Isadore Twerski,
Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1980).
Schreiber, Aaron M. Jewish Law and Decision-Making: A Study
Through Time. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.
Skaist, Aaron Jacob. The Old Babylonian Loan Contract: Its
History and Geography. Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press,
1994.
Watson, Alan. Jesus and the Jews: The Pharisaic Tradition in John. Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1995.
———. Jesus and the Law. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1996.
———. The Trial of Jesus. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Classical Greek and Roman
Law
Alexander, Michael C. Trials in the Late Roman Republic,
149 b.c. to 50 b.c. Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1990.
Bonner, Robert Johnson. Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient
Athens: The Genesis of the Legal Profession. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1927.
Bonner, Robert Johnson, and Gertrude Smith. The Administration
of Justice from Homer to Aristotle. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1930.
Buckland, W. W. A Text-Book of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian. 3d ed. Rev.
Peter Stein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.
Buckland, W. W., and Arnold D. McNair. Roman Law and Common
Law: A Comparison in Outline. 2d ed. Rev. F. H. Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1965.
Cohen, Edward E. Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1973.
Corpus Juris Civilis. The collection of legal texts issued
by the Emperor Justinian. The standard edition is the three-volume work
edited by Theodor Mommsen, Paul Krueger, Rudolph Schoell, and Wilhelm Kroll,
Corpus Juris Civilis (Berlin: Weidmann, 1904–11).
The entire Corpus Juris Civilis has appeared in a translation
by Samuel P. Scott, The Civil Law, 17 vols. (1932; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1973).
The Scott translation does, however, contain some serious deficiencies.
A modern translation of the Digest has been produced under the general editorship of Alan Watson.
See The Digest of Justinian, 4 vols. (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1985). For an early translation of the Institutes
published in the United States, see The Institutes of Justinian,
with Notes by Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1812). There is
also a modern translation of the Institutes by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod. See Justinian’s Institutes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987).
Daube, David. Roman Law: Linguistic, Social and Philosophical Aspects. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 1969.
Declareuil, J. Rome the Law-Giver. 1927. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1970.
Frier, Bruce W. A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1989.
———. Landlords and Tenants in Imperial
Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
———. The Rise of the Roman Jurists:
Studies in Cicero’s Pro Caecina. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1985.
Gagarin, Michael. Early Greek Law. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Garner, Richard. Law and Society in Classical Athens. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
Greenidge, A. H. J. A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History.
London: Macmillan, 1896.
———. The Legal Procedures of Cicero’s
Time. 1901. Reprint, South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1971.
Harrison, Alick Robin Walsham. The Law of Athens. 2 vols.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968–71.
Jolowicz, H. F. Roman Foundations of Modern Law. 1957. Reprint, Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1978.
Jones, John Walter. The Law and Legal Theory of the Greeks:
An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Kaser, Max.Das römische Privatrecht. 2 vols. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1971–75.
———. Römische Rechtsgeschichte.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1950.
———. Das römische Zivilprozessrecht.
Munich: C. H. Beck, 1966.
Kelly, J.M. Roman Litigation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Kunkel, Wolfgang. An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History. 2d ed.
Trans. J. M. Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.
MacDowell, Douglas M. The Law in Classical Athens. London:
Thames and Hudson, 1978.
Nicholas, Barry. An Introduction to Roman Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1962.
Pharr, Clyde. The Theodosian Code. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.
This code is a compilation of the laws, or decrees, of Rome issued by the
emperors from 313, when Constantine consolidated his power in the Western
Empire, to 438, in the reign of Theodosius II.
Radin, Max. Handbook of Roman Law. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1927.
Schultz, Fritz. Classical Roman Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951.
———. History of Roman Legal Science.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1946.
Treggiari, Susan. Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time
of Ulpian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Watson, Alan. Law Making in the Later Roman Republic. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1974.
———. The Law of Obligations in the
Later Roman Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.
———. The Law of Persons in the Later
Roman Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.
———. The Law of Property in the Later
Roman Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
———. The Law of Succession in the Later
Roman Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
———. Roman Private Law Around 200 b.c.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
———. Rome of the Twelve Tables: Persons
and Property. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
———. The Spirit of Roman Law. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1995.
———. Studies in Roman Private Law.
London: Hambledon Press, 1991.
Zulueta, Francis M. de, ed. The Institutes of Gaius.
2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1946–53. The text was composed
in the second century a.d. for Roman law students and was thought to be lost until its rediscovery
in the early nineteenth century. This edition, intended for use by modern
law students, provides both Latin text and facing English translation. The
reader might also wish to consult the new translation by W. M. Gordon and
O. F. Robinson, The Institutes of Gaius (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1988).
Early Medieval and Germanic
Law of the Fifth Through Eleventh Centuries
Adams, Henry, ed. Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905.
Attenborough, F. L., ed. and trans. The Laws of the Earliest
English Kings. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963.
Bartlett, Robert. Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1986.
Binchy, D. A. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1970.
Davies, Wendy, and Paul Fouracre, eds. The Settlement of
Disputes in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986.
Drew, Katherine Fischer, trans. The Burgundian Code.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.
———. The Laws of the Salian Franks.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
———. The Lombard Laws. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973.
Goebel, Julius, Jr. Felony and Misdemeanor: A Study in the
History of Criminal Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1976.
Guterman, Simeon L. The Principle of the Personality of Law
in the Germanic Kingdoms of Western Europe from the Fifth to the Eleventh
Century. New York: P. Lang, 1990.
Kern, Fritz. Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages. 1948. Reprint, Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1985.
Levy, Ernst. West Roman Vulgar Law: The Law of Property. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Association, 1951.
Miller, William Ian. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law,
and Society in Saga Iceland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Radding, Charles M. Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia
and Bologna, 850–1150. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Reynolds, Susan. Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1994.
Turk, Milton Haight, ed. The Legal Code of Alfred the Great.
Boston: Ginn, 1893.
Wallace-Hadrill, J. M. Early Germanic Kingship in England
and on the Continent. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Canon and Civil Law of the
Twelfth Through Fifteenth Centuries
Aquinas, Thomas. On Law, Morality, and Politics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing,
1988.
Blythe, James M., Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Brett, Annabel S. Liberty, Right, and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Brundage, James A. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval
Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
———. Medieval Canon Law. London:
Longman, 1995.
Corpus Juris Canonici. Assembled in the early sixteenth
century, this work collects the most important canon-law texts of the twelfth
through fifteenth centuries, including Gratian’s Decretum, the Liber Extra of Pope Gregory IX, the Liber
Sextus of Pope Boniface VIII, the decretal letters of Pope Clement V,
the Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, and the Extravagantes communes. The leading edition of this collection is Emil
Friedberg, Corpus Juris Canonici, 2 vols. (Leipzig: B.
Tauchnitz, 1879). Most of the Corpus remains untranslated, but one should consult Augustine Thompson
and James Gordley, trans., Gratian: The Treatise on Laws with the Ordinary Gloss (Washington, D.C.:
Catholic University of America Press, 1993).
Feenstra, Robert. Droit romain au moyen âge (1100–1500). Brussels:
Éditions de l’université de Bruxelles, 1979.
Gaudemet, Jean. Église et cité: Histoire du droit canonique. Paris:
Monchrestien, 1994.
———. La formation du droit canonique
médiéval. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980.
Helmholz, Richard H. The Spirit of Classical Canon Law.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Kantorowicz, Hermann Ulrich. Studies in the Glossators of
the Roman Law: Newly Discovered Writings of the Twelfth Century. Aalen:
Scientia Verlag, 1969.
Kuttner, Stephan. Gratian and the Schools of Canon Law, 1140–1234. London:
Variorum Reprints, 1983.
———. The History of Ideas and Doctrines
of Canon Law in the Middle Ages. 2d ed. Hampshire, U.K.: Variorum Reprints,
1992.
Le Bras, Gabriel, Charles Lefebvre, and Jacqueline Rambaud. L’âge classique (1140–1378): Sources et théorie
du droit. Paris: Sirey, 1965.
Ourliac, Paul, and Henri Gilles. La période post-classique
(1378–1500): La problématique de l’époque.
Paris: Sirey, 1974.
Pennington, Kenneth. The Prince and the Law, 1200–1600:
Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1993.
Post, Gaines. Studies in Medieval Legal Thought: Public Law and the State, 1100–1322.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von. Geschichte des Römischen
Rechts im Mittelalter. 6 vols. Heidelberg: Mohr, 1815–31.
Tierney, Brian. Church Law and Constitutional Thought in the Middle Ages. London:
Variorum Reprints, 1979.
———. The Crisis of Church and State,
1050–1300. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
———. The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies
on Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Church Law, 1150–1625. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1997.
———. Medieval Poor Law: A Sketch of
Canonical Theory and Its Application in England. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1959.
———. Religion, Law and the Growth of
Constitutional Thought, 1150–1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1982.
Ullmann, Walter. Jurisprudence in the Middle Ages: Collected Studies. London: Variorum
Reprints, 1980.
———. Law and Politics in the Middle
Ages: An Introduction to the Sources of Medieval Political Ideas. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1975.
———. The Medieval Idea of Law, as Represented
by Lucas de Penna: A Study of Fourteenth-Century Legal Scholarship.
London: Methuen, 1946.
Vinogradoff, Paul. Roman Law in Medieval Europe. 1909.
Reprint, Holmes Beach, Fla.: Wm. W. Gaunt and Sons, 1994.
Zulueta, Francis de, and Peter Stein. The Teaching of Roman
Law in England Around 1200. London: Selden Society, 1990.
Continental Law Since 1500
General
Bar, Ludwig von. A History of Continental Criminal Law. Boston: Little Brown, 1916.
Engelmann, Arthur. A History of Continental Civil Procedure.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.
Esmein, Adhémar, A History of Continental Criminal
Procedure: With Special Emphasis on France. 1882. Reprint, Boston:
Little, Brown, 1913.
A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements
in Continental Legal History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1912.
Gierke, Otto von. Natural Law and the Theory of Society, 1500–1800. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1934.
Gorla, Gino. Diritto comparato e diritto comune europeo. Milan: A. Giuffrè,
1981.
Merryman, John Henry. The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction
to the Legal System of Western Europe and Latin America. 2d ed. Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
The Progress of Continental Law in the Nineteenth Century.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1918.
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von. System des heutigen römischen
Rechts. 9 vols. Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1981.
Stein, Peter. The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law: Historical Essays.
London: Hambledon Press, 1988.
Watson, Alan. The Making of the Civil Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1981.
Zimmermann, Reinhard. The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations
of the Civilian Tradition. Capetown, South Africa: Juta, 1990.
Renaissance and Humanist
Jurisprudence
Kisch, Guido. Erasmus und die Jurisprudenz seiner Zeit: Studien zum humanistischen
Rechtsdenken. Basel: Helbing und Lichtenhahn, 1960.
———. Humanismus und Jurisprudenz:
Der Kampf zwischen mos italicus und mos gallicus an der Universität
Basel. Basel: Helbing und Lichtenhahn, 1955.
Maclean, Ian. Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Maffei, Domenico. Gli inizi dell’umanesimo giuridico. Milan: A. Giuffrè,
1956.
Piano Mortari, Vincenzo. Diritto, logica, metodo ne secolo
XVI. Naples: Jovene, 1978.
Canon Law
Bernhard, Jean, Charles Lefebvre, and Francis Rapp. L’époque de la réforme et du concile de Trente.
Paris: Éditions Cujas, 1989.
Epp, René, Charles Lefebvre, and René Metz. Le
droit et les institutions de l’Église catholique latine
de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à 1978: Sources, communauté,
chrétienne, et hiérarchie. Paris: Éditions Cujas,
1981.
Noonan, John. Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman
Curia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
French Law
Brissaud, Jean. History of French Private Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1912.
———. History of French Public Law.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1915.
Olivier-Martin, François. Histoire du droit français
des origines à la Révolution. Paris: Domat Montchrestien,
1948.
Ourliac, Paul, and J. de Malafosse. Histoire du droit privé.
3 vols. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1961.
Sagnac, Philippe. La legislation civile de la révolution Française (1789–1804):
essai d’histoire sociale. Paris: Hachette, 1898.
Schwartz, Bernard, ed. The Code Napoléon and the
Common-Law World. New York: New York University Press, 1956.
German Law
Allgemeines Landrecht für die preussischer Staaten von 1794. 2
vols. Frankfurt am Main: A. Metzner, 1970–73.
Gierke, Otto von. Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. 4 vols. Berlin: Weidmannische
Buchhandlung, 1869.
Huebner, Rodolf. A History of German Private Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1918.
Stinzing, Roderich von. Geschichte der deutschen Rechtswissenschaft.
2 vols. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1880–84.
Stobbe, Otto. Geschichte der deutschen Rechtsquellen. 2 vols. 1860. Reprint,
Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1965.
Whitman, James Q. The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision
and Legal Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Wieacker, Franz. Privatrechtsgeschichte der Neuzeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung
der deutschen Entwicklung. 2 vols. 2d ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
und Ruprecht, 1967.
Italian Law
Calisse, Carlo. A History of Italian Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1928.
Pertile, Antonio. Storia del diritto italiano dalla caduta dell’imperio romano
codificazione. 2d ed. 6 vols. Turin: Unione tipografico-editrice,
1892–1902.
The Netherlands
Lee, R. W. An Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1946.
English Law Since 1066
Constitutional and Legal
History
Adams, George Burton. Constitutional History of England.
New York: Henry Holt, 1921.
———. The Origin of the English Constitution.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912.
Adams, George Burton, and H. Morse Stephens. Select Documents
of English Constitutional History. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
Ames, James Barr. Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1913.
Anson, William R. The Law and Custom of the Constitution. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1897.
Baker, John H. An Introduction to English Legal History. 3d ed. London: Butterworths,
1990.
———. The Legal Profession and the
Common Law: Historical Essays. London: Hambledon Press, 1986.
———. The Order of Serjeants at Law.
London: Selden Society, 1984.
———. The Third University of England:
The Inns of Court and the Common-Law Tradition. London: Selden Society,
1990.
Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1926. See also Robert B. Anderson, A Supplement to
Beale’s Bibliography of Early English Law Books (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1943).
Beattie, J. M. Crime and the Courts in England, 1660–1800. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1986.
Blatcher, Marjorie. The Court of King’s Bench, 1450–1550:
A Study in Self-Help. London: Athlone Press, 1978.
Bogdanor, Vernon. The Monarchy and the Constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1995.
Brand, Paul. The Making of the Common Law. London: Hambledon Press, 1992.
Brooks, C. W. Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The “Lower Branch”
of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986.
Bryson, W. Hamilton. The Equity Side of the Exchequer:
Its Jurisdiction, Administration, Procedures, and Records. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Chrimes, S. B. English Constitutional Ideas in the Fifteenth Century. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1936.
Cowley, J. D. A Bibliography of Abridgements, Digests, Dictionaries, and Indexes
of English Law to the Year 1800. Abingdon: Professional Books, 1979.
Elton, Geoffrey. Star Chamber Stories. London: Methuen, 1958.
Fifoot, C. H. S. History and Sources of the Common Law: Tort and Contract. London:
Stevens, 1949.
Green, Thomas A. Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal
Trial Jury, 1200–1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1985.
Hallam, Henry. The Constitutional History of England. 3 vols. New York: A. C.
Armstrong and Son, 1880.
Hanham, H. J. The Nineteenth Century Constitution: Documents and Commentary.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Harding, Alan. The Law Courts of Medieval England. London: George Allen and Unwin,
1973.
———. A Social History of English
Law. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966.
Hastings, Margaret. The Court of Common Pleas in Fifteenth
Century England: A Study of Legal Administration and Procedure. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1947.
Helmholz, Richard H. Canon Law and the Law of England.
London: Hambledon Press, 1987.
Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1966; Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1986.
Holden, J. Milnes. The History of Negotiable Instruments
in English Law. London: Athlone Press, 1955.
Holdsworth, William S. Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian.
New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1972.
———. A History of English Law.
7th ed rev. 17 vols. London: Methuen, 1956–72.
———. Some Lessons from Our Legal
History. New York: Macmillan, 1928.
———. Sources and Literature of English
Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Common Law. 1881. Reprint,
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