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A Concise History of the Common Law

Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett (author)

Plucknett’s work provides a common-law understanding of individual rights, not in theory only, but protected through the confusing and messy evolution of courts, and their administration as they struggled to resolve real problems.…

The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, 3 vols.

Frederic William Maitland (author)

A 3 volume collection of Maitland’s shorter pieces on English law.

Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, 2 vols.

Sir William Blackstone (author)

A two volume edition of the classic work on English law by Blackstone. This edition is interesting because it includes the commentaries of at least 5 previous editors of Blackstone’s work along with additional notes by Sharswood, the…

The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government

Jean Louis De Lolme (author)

The Constitution of England is one of the most distinguished eighteenth-century treatises on English political liberty. Like Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) and Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), De…

The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, 2 vols.

Frederic William Maitland (author)

First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland’s legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins…

Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (5th ed.)

Albert Venn Dicey (author)

Dicey’s most famous work on English constitutional law in which he defended the idea of the sovereignty of parliament under an independent judiciary and the rule of law.

The Law of Torts (4th ed.)

Sir Frederick Pollock (author)

One of Pollock’s more substantial works which also contains his draft on a law of torts prepared for the government of India.

Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion (2nd ed. 1919)

Albert Venn Dicey (author)

A series of lectures Dicey gave at Harvard Law School on the rise of collectivism in England during the 19th century and its impact on legislation.

Principles of Equity

Henry Home, Lord Kames (author)

Principles of Equity is Kames’s most lasting contribution to jurisprudence. He sought to explain the distinction between the nature of equity and common law and to address related questions, such as whether equity should be bound by…

The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law

John Phillip Reid (author)

This is a critical collection of essays on the origin and nature of the idea of liberty. The authors explore the development of English ideas of liberty and the relationship those ideas hold to modern conceptions of rule of law.

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, 3 vols.

Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (editor)

A massive three volume collection of essays by leading American and English legal experts which surveys the entire body of Anglo-American law.

Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, 3 vols.

Steve Shepherd (editor)

A 3 vol. set of The Selected Writings. Vol. 1 contains a long introduction by the editor and 13 parts of the Reports. Vol. 2 contains Coke’s Speech at Norwich, excerpts from the small treatises, and excerpts from the 4 parts of the

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