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)
- BOLL 9: William Blackstone, “Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals” (1766) (Sir William Blackstone)
- BOLL 24: Spooner, “Vices are Not Crimes” (Lysander Spooner)
- BOLL 29: Norman Barry, “Hayek’s Theory of Spontaneous Order II: Legal Orders” (1982) (Norman P. Barry)
- BOLL 41: “Magna Carta” (The Great Charter) (1215) (Editor (OLL))
- BOLL 42: Sir Edward Coke, “Petition of Right” (1628) (Sir Edward Coke)
- BOLL 43: “The Habeas Corpus Act” (1679) (Editor (OLL))
- BOLL 44: “The English Bill of Rights” (1689) (Editor (OLL))
- BOLL 56: Hugo Grotius, “The Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Certainty of Right” (1625) (Hugo Grotius)
- 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)