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
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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
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Allan, T.R. S. Law, Liberty, and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism. Oxford,
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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:
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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.
London: John Murray, 4th ed, 1879 (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002).
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.
New York: Aspen, 4th ed., 2006.
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
Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1962.
Buckle, Stephen. Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.
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.
Byers, Michael. Custom, Power, and the Power of Rules. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 1999.
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
Honoré on his 80th Birthday. Oxford, UK: Hart Publ., 2001.
Cane, Peter and Mark Tushnet, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
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.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976 (orig. publ., 1933).
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
Press, 1972 (orig. publ., 1950).
Coleman, Jules. Markets, Morals and the Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
1988.
Coleman, Jules. Risks and Wrongs. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
1992.
Coleman, Jules. The Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory. Oxford
University Press, 2001.
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,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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
University Press, 1991.
Elster, Jon. Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens. New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.
Elster, Jon and Rune Slagstad, eds. Constitutionalism and Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 1988.
Ely, John Hart. Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1980.
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
Press, 1994.
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
York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Feinberg, Joel. Problems at the Roots of Law: Essays in Legal and Political Theory. Oxford, UK:
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Feinberg, Joel and Jules Coleman, eds. Philosophy of Law. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
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
Press, 1999.
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
University Press, 1981.
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 L. The Law in Quest of Itself. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1966.
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.
George, Robert P., ed. Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press,
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George, Robert P., ed. The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism. New York: Oxford
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George, Robert P. and Christopher Wolfe, eds. Natural Law and Public Reason. Washington, DC:
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Golding, Martin P. Philosophy of Law. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Golding, Martin P. Legal Reasoning. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001 ed.
Golding, Martin P. and William A. Edmundson, eds. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law
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Goodrich, Peter. Legal Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990 ed.
Goodrich, Peter. Oedipus Lex: Psychoanalysis, History, Law. Berkeley, CA: University of California
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Goodrich, Peter and David Gray Carlson, eds. Law and the Postmodern Mind. Ann Arbor, MI:
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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.
Guest, Stephen. Ronald Dworkin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Haakonssen, Knud. Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Habermas, Jürgen (William Regh, tr.). Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory
of Law and Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Harris, J.W. Legal Philosophies. London: Butterworth, 1980.
Hart, H.L.A. Essays on Bentham. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Hart, H.L.A. Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Hart, H.L.A. The Concept of Law. Oxford, UK; Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1994.
Hart, H.L.A. and Tony Honoré. Causation in the Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed.,
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Hayek, Friedrich A. von. Law, Legislation and Liberty…,Vol. 1, Rules and Order. Chicago, IL:
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