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.


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.

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The Hague Peace Conferences concerning the Laws and Usages of War (A Pearce Higgins)
The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, 2 vols. (Frederic William Maitland)
The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, vol. 1 (Frederic William Maitland)
The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, vol. 2 (Frederic William Maitland)
The Ideal Element in Law (Roscoe Pound)
In Defense of the Constitution (George W. Carey)
Institutes of Roman Law (Gaius)
The Intellectual Portrait Series: Profiles in Liberty - Raoul Berger (Raoul Berger)
The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Ronald H. Coase (Ronald H. Coase)
The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Ernest van den Haag (Ernest van den Haag)
The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Henry Manne (Fred McChesney)
An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe (1682, 2013) (Samuel von Pufendorf)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (Roscoe Pound)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Jeremy Bentham)
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (5th ed.) (Albert Venn Dicey)
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (LF ed.) (Albert Venn Dicey)
Jurisprudence (James Mill)
The Law (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
Law in a Free State (Wordsworth Donisthorpe)
The Law (revised LF ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
The Law of Intellectual Property (1855) (Lysander Spooner)
Law of Nations (James Mill)
The Law of Nations (LF ed.) (Emer de Vattel)
The Law of Nations (1833 ed.) (Emer de Vattel)
The Law of Torts (4th ed.) (Sir Frederick Pollock)