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The Origin of Liberalism. Influenced by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Mill adopted a modified laissez-faire position, believing in the efficiency of free enterprise, but aware of the frequent failure of the market to maximize utility...

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The Book of Lord Shang was probably compiled sometime between 359 and 338 BCE. Along with the Han Fei-Tzu, it is one of the two principal sources of Legalism, a school of Chinese political thought. Legalism asserts that human behavior must be cont...

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A Useful Compendium of Legal Maxims and PhrasesOriginally published: London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1915. viii, 300 pp. The perfect book for that considerable number of law students and lawyers with little or no knowledge of Latin. For those already...

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Origins of the English Jury. Originally published: Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn, [1875]. x, 388 pp. First published in England in 1852, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury is the first full-scale historical account of the rise and growth of the j...

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Beginning with Coke and Selden, Holdsworth surveys the work of the great practitioners of Anglo-American legal history.Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. 175 pp. "In this reprint of lectures delivered by the lear...

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Barton's entertaining and handy study reviews allusions to trials, judges, advocates, courts, procedure, legal concepts and terminology in Shakespeare'splays. Also biographical, Barton considers Shakespeare's personal relation tothe Inns of Court ...

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The first casebook, Harvard Law School, 1871. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1871. xvi, 1022 pp. The landmark work that introduced the revolutionary idea of the "case system" to legal education, which Langdell inst...

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Complete English translation with a running parallel transliteration of the original ideograms of The Code of Hammurabi, the longest surviving legal text from the Old Babylonian periodThe Code of Hammurabi is a collection of laws proscribed by Ham...

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A Collection of Cardozo's Important Opinions. Edited by A. L. Sainer, with a foreword by Hon. Robert F. Wagner. Originally published: New York: Ad Press Ltd., [1938]. Frontispiece. xv, 441 pp. A collection of notable opinions by the great judge in...

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Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept of"judicial review," which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregardultra vires legislative acts.. In "Mar...

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Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests (such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife," "The servant and his two masters"); a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale...

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This classic study explores the history of criminal law in Roman, Germanic and medieval Europe from ancient times to the date of authorship, and includes a scientific and philosophical discussion of the principles underlying criminal law. Original...

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LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAWThree lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsen's theory as a reactionary theory and Hobbes' theory of sovereignty. ...

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At the time this code was drafted, Great Britain's Indian colonies were governed by the private East India Company. In many cases, its regulations concerning criminal acts conflicted with Muslim law, law Hindu law and English common law. In 1834 t...

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Austin introduced theories of analytical jurisprudence and positive law in this landmark book, which also became the founding text of legal positivism. This reissue of the only edition published during his lifetime, long unavailable, will be of gr...

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Published anonymously, this highly respected work was the first history of the common law. Originally published: [London]: Printed by J. Nutt, 1713. [iii], 264, [12]; [xvi], 171 pp. Reprint of the first edition. Two parts, each with title page and...

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Considered a primary factor in the undermining of the Whig history of Magna Carta, McKechnie’s landmark study provides a translation and detailed analysis of this fundamental text. xvii,530 pp.

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What is the exact nature of the right to a trademark? What is the basis of relief in trademark cases of unfair competition? Schechter unravels these problems as he traces the development of the law of trademarks from medieval times to the early tw...

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Calabresi complains that we are "choking on statutes" and proposes a restoration of the courts to their common law function. From a series of lectures given by Calabresi as part of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures delivered at Harvard ...

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A collection of Sir Frederick Pollock's lectures from the Carpentier Series at Columbia University. William Holdsworth praised the eight lectures as a discussion of  “...critical studies of aspects and characteristics of the common law ...

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Notable Early Treatise on the Principles of American Government.A revised version of Nathaniel Chipman's Sketches of the Principles of Government (1793), this early treatise on the underlying principles of American government addresses civil laws ...

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A Substantial Collection of Legal Maxims That is Now an Accepted ClassicEach maxim is expertly translated, and enhanced by Broom's knowledgeable explanatory essays that provide the source and meaning, and are in themselves extremely well-annotated...

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Biblical Law: Being a Text of the Statutes, Ordinances, and Judgments Established in the Holy Bible with Many Allusions to Secular Laws: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Documented to the Scriptures, Judicial Decisions, and Legal LiteratureClark off...

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The influential jurist Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] here applies his concept of the distinction between society and nature. He shows how primitive man developed his interpretation of nature, through the laws of retribution and of causality, to a modern...

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A systematic and scholarly description of the principles of the Roman law regarding slavery. Examines slavery during the Empire, the rights of slaves, commercial and non-commercial relations, and provides an outline of the law of manumission durin...

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Widely read and used as a political science textbook, this is the best known of Lieber’s work. He was a prominent political philosopher who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his t...

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Justice Story's enormous influence on American law is demonstrated in this collection of his writings, edited by his son. Includes Story's autobiography that was written in the form of a fascinating long letter to his son, and many other articles,...

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First published under the auspices of The London Institute of World Affairs in1950. With a supplement, Recent Trends in the Law of the United Nations [1951]."[A] number of reasons why this book is bound to appeal to delegates asa source of qu...

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Originally published: Washington City: Printed for the Author, by Way and Gideon, 1823. [4], 316 pp. Hardcover. New.Reprint of the uncommon first edition of the fourth and last of Taylor's books on the United States Constitution. Little-known toda...

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