Law
About this Collection
From the earliest written legal codes to the beginnings of modern constitutionalism, the history of law is the story of our working out how personal liberties interact with responsibilities to others.
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Cicero(106-43 BC) | Edward Coke (1552-1634) | Bruno Leoni (1913-1967) |
See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Law section of the Ideas page.
Members:
- A Concise History of the Common Law (Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett)
- Ancient Law (Sir Henry Sumner Maine)
- Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters (Hammurabi)
- The Best of Bastiat 2.3: The Law (Frédéric Bastiat)
- Code civil des français. Édition originale et seule officielle (Napoléon Bonaparte)
- The Code Napoleon: or, the French Civil Code (Napoléon Bonaparte)
- The Code of Hammurabi (Hammurabi)
- The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, 3 vols. (Frederic William Maitland)
- The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, vol. 1 (Frederic William Maitland)
- The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, vol. 2 (Frederic William Maitland)
- The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, vol. 3 (Frederic William Maitland)
- The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education (John Stuart Mill)
- The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings (John Stuart Mill)
- The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10 (The Reason of Rules) (James M. Buchanan)
- Collected Works of James Wilson, 2 vols. (James Wilson)
- Collected Works of James Wilson, vol. 1 (James Wilson)
- Collected Works of James Wilson, vol. 2 (James Wilson)
- The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), in one vol. (Lysander Spooner)
- Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (Donald S. Lutz)
- Commentaire sur l’Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu (Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy)
- Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, 2 vols. (Sir William Blackstone)
- Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, vol. 1 (Sir William Blackstone)
- Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, vol. 2 (Sir William Blackstone)
- Commentary on Filangieri’s Work (Benjamin Constant)
- Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty (Hugo Grotius)