Law
The following are a selection of chapters and extracts taken from books in the OLL collection. They have been chosen because of their special importance for understanding the principles of individual liberty, limited government, and the free market. Some of the extracts are from the books themselves and serve as a representative sample of that author’s ideas. Others are introductions written by the editors of the volume which contain important biographical information about the author and a discussion of their ideas. Links are provided to the book from which the extract was taken so the reader can pursue the subject in more depth if they are interested.
Other collections of material from the OLL which are useful places to begin exploring these ideas are the following:
- Quotations about Liberty and Power
- The Best of the OLL: An Anthology
- Forgotten Gems of Liberty
- Key Documents of Liberty
- Classics of Liberty
Further Reading
- Subject Area: Law
- School of Thought: 17thC Natural Rights Theorists
- Collection: Natural Law & Enlightenment Series
- Collection: The Founders’ Constitution
- Collection: Charters and Constitutions
- Anthology: Key Documents of Liberty
- Topic: The Laws of War
- Topic: Magna Carta
- Topic: Natural Law and Natural Rights
Selected Chapters and Introductions from the Collection
- A Legal Glossary by Roscoe Pound
- Bastiat, The Law (revised LF edition)
- Bentham on the Principles of Morals & Legislation
- Blackstone on Property (1753)
- Blackstone on the Absolute Rights of Individuals (1753)
- Blackstone: Analysis and Contents of Vol. 1 of Commentaries on the Law of England
- Blackstone: Analysis and Contents of Vol. 2 of Commentaries on the Law of England
- Blackstone: Introduction to the Laws of England
- Bryce on the Legal History of Rome and England
- Burlamaqui and Natural Law
- Carmichael & Natural Rights
- Cicero’s Treatise on the Laws
- Dicey on Law and Public Opinion in the 19th Century
- Dicey on the Rise of Legal Collectivism in the 20thC
- Doctrine of the Separation of Powers
- Fuller and the Law
- Gaius' Institutes of Roman Law: An Historical Introduction
- Gardiner on the Constitional Issues of the English Revolution
- Gardiner on the English Revolution
- Grotius & the Freedom of the Seas
- Grotius and the Natural Law Tradition
- Grotius on Prize and Booty
- Heineccius and Turnbull on Natural Law
- History of English Law
- Holdsworth on the Law Merchant
- Kant’s Philosophy of Law
- Law and Liberty by Roscoe Pound
- Lenks on the history of Habeus Corpus
- Leoni on the Rule of Law
- Magna Carta 700th Anniversary
- Magna Carta and the Common Law
- Magna Carta and the US Constitution
- Magna Carta in 16th Century English Legal Thought
- Magna Carta: An Historical Introduction
- Maitland on English Law before the Norman Conquest
- Maitland’s Outlines of English Legal History
- McIlwain on Ancient Constitutionalism
- Natural Law and Liberalism
- Pollock on the King’s Peace in the Middle Ages
- Pollock on the Law of Torts
- Pollock on the Oath of Allegiance in English History
- Pollock’s Model Version of Tort Law
- Pound and the Law
- Pound on the Ideal Element of Law
- Pound on the Philosophy of Law (Property)
- Pufendorf and Universal Jurisprudence
- Richard Cumberland and Natural Law
- Rommen & the Study of Natural Law in the 20thC
- Rommen and Natural Law
- Rommen on Natural Law in the Age of Individualism
- Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta (2008)
- Spooner on Natural Law (1882)
- Spooner, Taxation and the Common Law (1852)
- The History of James Wilson’s Law Lectures