Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory: A Basic Bibliography by Patrick O'Donnell
Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory: A Basic Bibliography
Compiled by Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2006)
Alexander, Larry, ed. Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
Alexander, Larry and Emily Sherwin. The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law.
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Alexy, Robert. A Theory of Legal Argumentation. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Alexy, Robert (Stanley L. Paulson and Bonnie Litschewski Paulson, tr.). The Argument from
Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2002.
Allan, T.R. S. Law, Liberty, and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism. Oxford,
UK: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Allan, T.R.S. Constitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law. New York: Oxford University
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Allen, C.K. Law in the Making. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1964.
Altman, Andrew. Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
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Atiyah, Patrick S. Promises, Morals and Law. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Atiyah, Patrick S. Essays on Contract. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986.
Atiyah, Patrick S. and R.S. Summers. Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law. Oxford, UK:
Clarendon Press, 1987.
Atria, Fernando. On Law and Legal Reasoning. Oxford, UK: Hart Publ., 2001.
Austin, John (R. Campbell, ed.). Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law.
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Austin, John (W. Rumble, ed.). The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1995 (orig. publ., 1832).
Ayres, Ian and Gregory Klass. Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
Baird, Douglas G., Robert H. Gertner and Randal C. Picker. Game Theory and the Law.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Balkin, J.M. and Sanford Levinson, eds. Legal Canons. New York: New York University Press,
2000.
Bandes, Susan A., ed. The Passions of Law. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Barnett, Randy E. The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press,
1998.
Barnett, Randy E. Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2004.
Bartlett, Katharine T. and Rosanne Kennedy, eds. Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and
Gender. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Bartlett, Katharine T. and Deborah L. Rhode. Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine and Commentary.
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Baum, Lawrence. The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,
1997.
Bengoetxea, Joxerramon. The Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice. Oxford, UK:
Clarendon Press, 1993.
Benson, Peter, ed. The Theory of Contract Law: New Essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
Bickel, Alexander M., The Morality of Consent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.
Bix, Brian. Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Bix, Brian. Jurisprudence: Theory and Context. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 4th ed., 2006.
Bix, Brian. A Dictionary of Legal Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Bix, Brian, ed. Analyzing Law: New Essays in Legal Theory. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Bloch, Ernst (Dennis J. Schmidt, tr.). Natural Law and Human Dignity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1986.
Bobbio, Norberto (Daniela Gobetti, tr.). Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition. Chicago, IL:
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Bobbitt, Philip. Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press,
1982.
Bobbitt, Philip. Constitutional Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, revised ed., 2006.
Braithwaite, John. Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Braithwaite, John and Philip Pettit. Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal
Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Brewer, Scott, ed. Moral Theory and Legal Reasoning. New York: Garland, 1998.
Brewer, Scott, ed. Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts. New York: Garland, 1998.
Brooks, Thom, ed. Rousseau and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Brooks, Thom, ed. Locke and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Broomhall, Bruce. International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between
Sovereignty and the Rule of Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Brownsword, R. and J. Adams Understanding Contract Law. London: Sweet and
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Buchanan, Allen. Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Buchanan, James M. and Gordon Tullock. The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of
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Buckle, Stephen. Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume.
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Burley, Justine, ed. Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Burton, Steven J. An Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning. New York: Aspen, 2nd ed., 1995.
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Cairns, Huntington. Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press,
1949.
Campbell, Joseph Keim, Michael O’Rourke, and David Shier, eds. Law and Social Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Cane, Peter. The Anatomy of Tort Law. Oxford, UK: Hart Publ., 1997.
Cane, Peter. Responsibility in Law and Morality. Oxford, UK: Hart Publ., 2002.
Cane, Peter and John Gardner, eds. Relating to Responsibility: Essays in honour of Tony
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Cane, Peter and Mark Tushnet, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies. New York: Oxford
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Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Nature of the Judicial Process. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1978 (orig. publ., 1921).
Chamallas, Martha. Introduction to Feminist Legal Theory. New York: Aspen, 2nd ed., 2003.
Christman, John. The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994.
Clayton, Cornell W. and Howard Gillman, eds. Supreme Court Decision-Making: New
Institutionalist Approaches. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Cohen, Felix S., Ethical Systems and Legal Ideals: An Essay on the Foundations of Legal Criticism.
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Cohen, G.A. Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
Cohen, Marshall, ed. Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence. London: Duckworth, 1984.
Cohen, Morris Raphael. Reason and Law: Studies in Juristic Philosophy. Westport, CT: Greenwood
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Coleman, Jules. Markets, Morals and the Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
1988.
Coleman, Jules. Risks and Wrongs. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
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Coleman, Jules. The Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory. Oxford
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Coleman, Jules, ed. Hart’s Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to the Concept of Law. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2001.
Coleman, Jules and Scott Shapiro, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law.
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Collins, Hugh. Marxism and Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Collins, Hugh. Regulating Contracts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Cotterrell, Roger. The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy. London:
Butterworth, 1989.
Coyle, Sean and Karen Morrow. The Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Law. Portland, OR:
Hart Publ., 2004.
Dan-Cohen, Meir. Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
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den Hartogh, Govert A. Mutual Expectations: A Conventionalist Theory of Law. The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 2002.
d’Entreves, A.P. Natural Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy. London: Hutchinson University
Library, 1970.
Devins, Neal and Keith E. Whittington, eds. Congress and the Constitution. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2005.
Devlin, Patrick. The Enforcement of Morals. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Dickson, Julie. Evaluation and Legal Theory. Oxford, UK: Hart Publ., 2001.
Dowd, Nancy E. and Michelle S. Jacobs, eds. Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader.
New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Dowding, Keith, Robert E. Goodin and Carole Pateman, eds. Justice and Democracy. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Duff, R.A. Punishment, Communication and Community. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Duff, Antony, ed. Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Duff, Antony and David Garland, eds. A Reader on Punishment. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994.
Dworkin, Ronald. Taking Rights Seriously. London: Duckworth, 1977.
Dworkin, Ronald. A Matter of Principle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Dworkin, Ronald. Law’s Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Dworkin, Ronald. Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 1996.
Dworkin, Ronald. Justice in Robes. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2006.
Dworkin, Ronald, ed. The Philosophy of Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Dyzenhaus, David. Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in
Weimar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dyzenhaus, David, ed. Recrafting the Rule of Law: The Limits of Legal Order. Oxford, UK:
Hart Publ., 1999.
Dyzenhaus, David and Arthur Ripstein, eds. Law and Morality: Readings in Legal Philosophy.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2nd ed., 2001.
Edmundson, William A. Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edmundson, William A. An Introduction to Rights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2004.
Edmundson, William A., ed. The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings. Lanham,
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Eisenberg, Melvin Aron. The Nature of the Common Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1988.
Ellickson, Robert. Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
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Elster, Jon. Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens. New York:
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Elster, Jon and Rune Slagstad, eds. Constitutionalism and Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
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Ely, John Hart. Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
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Endicott, Timothy. Vagueness in Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Englard, I. The Philosophy of Tort Law. Aldershot, Dartmouth Publ. Co., 1993.
Epstein, Richard A. Torts. New York: Aspen, 1999.
Eskridge, William N., Jr. Dynamic Statutory Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
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Fallon, Richard H., Jr. Implementing the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
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Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 1: Harm to Others. New York:
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Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 2: Offense to Others. New York:
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Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 3: Harm to Self. New York:
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Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 4: Harmless Wrongdoing. New
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Feinberg, Joel. Problems at the Roots of Law: Essays in Legal and Political Theory. Oxford, UK:
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Finnis, John. Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Franck, Thomas M. Fairness in International Law and Institutions. New York: Oxford University
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Frey, R.G. and Christopher W. Morris, eds. Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Laws and Morals.
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Fried, Charles. Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
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Friedmann, Wolfgang Gaston. Legal Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 5th ed., 1967.
Friedrich, Carl Joachim. The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective. Chicago, IL: University of
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Fuller, Lon. The Morality of Law. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, revised ed., 1969.
Gans, Chaim. Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
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Gauthier, David. Morals by Agreement. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Gordley, J. The Philosophical Origins of Contract Dispute. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Green, Leslie. The Authority of the State. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Greenawalt, Kent. Conflicts of Law and Morality. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Haakonssen, Knud. Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment.
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McIlwain, Charles Howard, Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern (1940) (rev. ed. 1947).
Mitchell, Basil, Law, Morality, and Religion in a Secular Society (1967).
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Morris, Herbert, On Guilt and Innocence (1976).
Munzer, Stephen R., Legal Validity (1972).
Negley, Glenn, Political Authority and Moral Judgment (1965).
Nonet, Philippe & Philip Selznick, Law and Society in Transition (1978).
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Perelman, Ch., The Idea of Justice and the Problem of Argument (John Petrie trans. 1963).
Perelman, Ch., Justice (1967).
Pincoffs, Edmund L., The Rationale of Legal Punishment (1966).
Pound, Roscoe, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (1922) (rev. ed. 1954).
Radbruch, Gustav, Rechtsphilosophie (3d ed. 1932): Kurt Wilk trans., Legal Philosophy, in The Legal Philosophies of Lask, Radbruch, and Dabin (1950).
Rommen, Heinrich A., Die ewige Wiederkehr des Naturrechts (1936): Thomas R. Hanley trans., The Natural Law (1947).
Ross, Alf, Om ret og retfaerdighed (1953): Margaret Dutton trans., On Law and Justice (1958).
Ross, Alf, Skyld, ansvar og straf (1970): Alastair Hannay & Thomas E. Sheahan trans., On Guilt, Responsibility and Punishment (1975).
Sartorius, Rolf, Individual Conduct and Social Norms (1975).
Shklar, Judith N., Legalism (1964).
Sigmund, Paul E., Natural Law in Political Thought (1971).
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Stone, Julius, Human Law and Human Justice (1965).
Stumpf, Samuel Enoch, Morality and the Law (1966).
Summers, Robert S., ed., Essays in Legal Philosophy (1968).
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Posted by: anon | September 14, 2006 at 12:44 PM
Suggested additions:
Dan-Cohen, Meir, Harmful Thoughts (2002).
Fuller, Lon L., The Law in Quest of Itself (1940).
Fuller, Lon L., Anatomy of the Law (1968).
Kelsen, Hans, Reine Rechtslehre (1934): Bonnie Litschewski Paulson & Stanley L. Paulson trans., Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory (1992).
Kelsen, Hans, General Theory of Law and State (Anders Wedberg trans. 1945).
Kelsen, Hans, What Is Justice? (1957).
Kelsen, Hans, Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy (Ota Weinberger ed. 1973).
Posted by: anon | September 14, 2006 at 01:03 PM
Some wonderful suggestions. One can now clearly see the generational bias of my compilation! (or, less charitably, a bias on behalf of the 'newer stuff') And I'm surprised yet gratified to see the Ernst Bloch reference here, not so much for this particular title, but because I had thought he was all but forgotten! Just today I mentioned his Principle of Hope in class by way of comparing and filling out Marx's comment on religion as 'the sigh of the oppressed creature,' and of course not a soul had ever heard of Bloch.
I also, inexcusably, left a few titles by Tamanaha, Bobbitt, and Raz off the list, as well as Leiter's forthcoming volume (kindly pointed out to me by Dennis Patterson). I'll be incorporating some of the above titles in a revised edition (it's a 'basic' bibliography, so I don't want to see it get too large and unmanageable).
In short, many thanks to 'anon.'
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | September 14, 2006 at 09:49 PM
Kelly, J.M., A Short History of Western Legal Theory (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992)
Posted by: David Prendergast | September 15, 2006 at 05:01 AM
anon (or anons?) hit most of the omissions that struck me in reading the list through the first time (Fuller, Kelsen, etc.) A few further suggestions:
Cardozo, Nature of the Judical Process
Hayek, F.A., Law, Legislation, and Liberty, vol. 1
Raz, The Authority of Law (much more important for this list than some of the other Raz works listed!)
Spaeth & Segal, Attitudinal Model
Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, III.ii
And some if-thens: If Grotius (that is, if it's the kind of list on which Grotius belongs) then Hobbes, Blackstone, Bentham, Austin. If G.A. Cohen, then Nozick. If Gauthier, then Buchanan and Tullock.
Posted by: Jacob T. Levy | September 15, 2006 at 11:13 AM
I had the Raz book right next to me (my pbk copy is bright orange) and not sure how I missed it. I've since put it on.
Update: Most of anon's suggestions have been added (not here, mind you, but to my copy, which I'll send to Larry when I'm finished adding/subtracting titles).
I'll remove Grotius.
Not not sure how I missed Nozick other than subconscious bias (although I am rather fond of some passages in Philosophical Explanations). I take the point about Buchanan and Tullock: I'll add them all.
First, my generational bias is exposed, then my political bias: a humbling exercise!
Thanks Jacob
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | September 15, 2006 at 05:54 PM
David, I added your suggestion too.
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | September 15, 2006 at 08:53 PM
I'm just a student, so I don't know how much this contributes to your list, but I read Bobbitt's Constitutional Fate in my con law class. I thought it did a great job of demanding that I pay attention (as a novice legal theory reader), but still showing me "the ropes" and made me feel like less of an outsider.
Posted by: Michael Rice | December 30, 2007 at 12:26 PM