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:
- 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)
- The Complaint of Peace (Desiderius Erasmus)
- The Concise Magna Carta: The 63 Clauses in Latin, English, and with Commentary (David M. Hart)
- Constitution of Athens (Aristotle)
- The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government (Jean Louis De Lolme)
- Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern (Charles Howard McIlwain)
- Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (John Taylor)
- The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 2: The Law, The State, and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850 (Frédéric Bastiat)
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (Georg Jellinek)
- A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850) (Lysander Spooner)
- Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (Sir Henry Sumner Maine)
- Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, 2 vols. (Emer de Vattel)
- Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, vol. 1 (Emer de Vattel)
- Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, vol. 2 (Emer de Vattel)
- The Early Christian Attitude to War (John Cecil Cadoux)
- The Enhanced Edition of The Rights of War and Peace (1625) (Hugo Grotius)
- An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria)
- An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852) (Lysander Spooner)