Law

Roscoe Pound Subject Area: Law

Source: Roscoe Pound, The Ideal Element in Law, ed. Stephen Presser (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 2002). Chapter: Glossary

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Jeremy Bentham School of Thought: 19thC Utilitarians

Source: Unknown editor's preface to Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907).

Sir William Blackstone Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books. Notes selected from the editions of Archibold, Christian, Coleridge, Chitty, Stewart,… more

Sir William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books. Notes selected from the editions of… more

Sir William Blackstone Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books. Notes selected from the editions of Archibold, Christian, Coleridge, Chitty, Stewart,… more

William Blackstone Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books. Notes selected from the editions of Archibold, Christian, Coleridge, Chitty, Stewart, Kerr,… more

Sir William Blackstone Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books. Notes selected from the editions of Archibold, Christian, Coleridge, Chitty, Stewart,… more

Viscount James Bryce

Source: Chapter: 10.: JAMES BRYCE, A COMPARISON OF THE HISTORY OF LEGAL DEVELOPMENT AT ROME AND IN… more

Burlamaqui Subject Area: Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Burlamaqui's The Principles of Natural and Politic Law, trans. Thomas Nugent, ed. and with an Introduction by Peter Korkman (Indianpolis: Liberty Fund,… more

Works byGrotius, Locke, Adam Smith
School of Thought:17thC Natural Rights
Collection: Natural Law& Enlightenment Classics

Adam Smith Hugo Grotius John Locke

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Cicero Subject Area: Law

Cicero

Source: Introduction to The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Comprising his Treatise on the Commonwealth; and his Treatise on the Laws.… more

A.V. Dicey Subject Area: Law

Source: Albert Venn Dicey, Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century, edited and with an Introduction by Richard VandeWetering… more

A.V. Dicey Subject Area: Law

Source: From Dicey's Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century (London: Macmillan, 1919). 2nd edition.

Editor: In the 2nd… more

M.J.C. Vile Subject Area: Political Theory

Bibliograhphy on the Separation of Powers

Source: A chapter in Vile's Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers (2nd ed.) (Indianapolis, Liberty… more

Works by F. A. Hayek, and Law

Barry on spontaneous order

This essay first appeared as an editorial in the journal Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought, Autumn 1980,… more

Works by Gaius Subject Area: Law Collection: Laws, Charters

Gaius

Source: Poste's Historical Introduction to Gai Institutiones or Institutes of Roman Law by Gaius, with a… more

Topic: The English Revolution

Source: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660, selected and edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906).… more

Subject Area: History Topic: The English Revolution

Source: Editor's Introduction to selected and edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906).

Hugo Grotius Topic: Laws of War

Source: Introduction to Grotius's The Free Sea, trans. Richard Hakluyt, with William Welwod’s Critiuqe and Grotius’s Reply, ed. David Armitage (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).

Veatch on Natural Law Rommen on Natural Law Natural Law and Liberalism

17thC Natural Law Theorists

Grotius

Source: This essay first appeared in the journal … more

Hugo Grotius Subject Area: War and Peace Topic: Laws of War

Hugo Grotius

Source: Editor's Introduction to Grotius's Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty, ed. and with an… more

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius Subject Area: Natural Law

Source: Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, the Laws of Nature and Nations, with Supplements and a Discourse by George… more

Sir Frederick Pollock Frederic William Maitland Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir Frederick Pollock, The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I. Reprint of 2nd edition, with a Select Bibliography and… more

William Searle Holdsworth

Source: Chapter: 9.: WILLIAM SEARLE HOLDSWORTH, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW MERCHANT AND ITS… more

Immanuel Kant Subject Area: Law

Immanuel Kant

Source: Preface to Kant's The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right,… more

Roscoe Pound (1870-1964) taught the founder of Liberty Fund, Pierre F. Goodrich, law at Harvard University in 1916-17 and they remained in contact for the rest of Pound's life. Goodrich was very much influenced by Pound's ideas on… more

Subject Area: Law

Source: Chapter: 35.: EDWARD JENKS, THE STORY OF THE HABEAS CORPUS, Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, by various authors, compiled and edited by a committee of the Association of… more

Bruno Leoni Subject Area: Law

Source: Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law, expanded 3rd edition, foreword by Arthur Kemp (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1991). Chapter: 3: Freedom and the Rule of Law

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Topic: Law

Source: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays, edited by Henry Elliot Malden, M.A. with a Preface by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., Etc. For the Royal Historical Society, 1917.

Topic: Law

Source: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays, edited by Henry Elliot Malden, M.A. with a Preface by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., Etc. For the Royal Historical Society, 1917.

Topic: Law

Source: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays, edited by Henry Elliot Malden, M.A. with a Preface by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., Etc. For the Royal Historical Society, 1917.

Magna Carta

Magna Carta Subject Area: Law

Key Documents

Source: The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule… more

Magna Carta Collection: Laws, Charters, Constitutions

Magna Carta (text)

Magna Carta

Source: McKechnie's introduction to Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great… more

Frederic William Maitland Subject Area: Law

Source: Chapter: 3.: SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, ENGLISH LAW BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST, Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, by various authors, compiled and… more

Works by F.W. Maitland Subject Area: Law

Source: An article in The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, ed. H.A.L. Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 1911). 3 Vols. Vol. 2.

Charles Howard McIlwain Subject Area: Law

Source: Charles Howard McIlwain, Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008). Chapter: III: The Constitutionalism of Rome and Its… more

Subject Area: Law Tipoc: Natural Law

Sir Frederick Pollock

Source: Chapter: 32.: SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, THE KING’S PEACE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, Committee of the… more

Sir Frederick Pollock Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir Frederick Pollock, The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations arising from Civil Wrongs in the Common Law: to which is added the Draft of a… more

Lalor's Cyclopedia Law

Source: Cyclopedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States by the best American and European Authors, ed. John J. Lalor (Chicago: M.B.… more

Sir Frederick Pollock Subject Area: Law

Source: Sir Frederick Pollock, The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations arising from Civil Wrongs in the Common Law: to which is added the Draft of a… more

Roscoe Pound Subject Area: Law

Source: Roscoe Pound, The Ideal Element in Law, ed. Stephen Presser (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 2002). Chapter: Foreword

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Roscoe Pound Subject Area: Law

Source: Roscoe Pound, The Ideal Element in Law, ed. Stephen Presser (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 2002). Chapter: ONE: Is There an Ideal Element in Law?

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Roscoe Pound Subject Area: Law Topic: Property

Source: Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922). Chapter: V: Property

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Samuel von Pufendorf Topic: Natural Law & Natural Rights

Source: Samuel von Pufendorf, Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence, translated by William Abbott Oldfather, 1931. Revised by Thomas… more

Richard Cumberland Subject Area: Natural Law and Natural Rights

Source: Richard Cumberland, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature, translated, with Introduction and Appendix, by John Maxwell (1727), edited and with a… more

Bibliography on Natural Law

Heinrich Rommen Topic: Natural Law

Source: Introduction to Rommen's The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy, trans. Thomas R. Hanley.… more

Works by Heinrich Rommen Topic: Natural Law

Veatch on Natural Law Bibliography on Natural Law

Source: Editor's Introduction to Heinrich Rommen's The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social… more

Works by Heinrich Rommen Pufendorf, Descartes, Kant, 18thC
Topic: Natural Law

Veatch on Natural Law Bibliography on Natural Law

Source: Chapter 4 of Heinrich Rommen's The Natural Law: A Study… more

Lysander Spooner Topic: Natural Law & Natural Rights

Source: Natural Law: or the Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society; showing… more

Lysander Spooner Topic: Magna Carta

Source: Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852). APPENDIX.: TAXATION.

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James Wilson Subject Area: American Revolution and Constitution Group: Founding Fathers

Source: Bibliographical Essay: The History of James Wilson's Law Lectures, in the Collected Works of James Wilson, edited by… more