 | The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series) by H. L. A. Hart
Buy new: $38.66 / Used from: $14.98 A masterpiece of an articulation of what 'law' means.
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 | The Spirit of Laws (Great Books in Philosophy) by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.97 The classic work that explained the importance of separation of powers to safegaurd democracy.
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 | Pure Theory of Law by Hans Kelsen
Buy new: $95.00 A classic book that distinguished norms, values and law and explained the relationship between these concepts.
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 | The Laws of Plato by Plato
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $10.99 One of the earliest and timeless reflections on the philosophy of law.
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 | A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
Buy new: $26.50 / Used from: $6.25 A neo-utilitarian and rationalist inquiry into justice and equality.
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 | The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy) by Jeremy Bentham
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $4.88 The bible of utilitarianism. A book that proposed factors and metrics for good legislation and universally benefitting morality.
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 | Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.59 A history of punishment that excavates the changing nature of power relationships between law and deviance.
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 | Law and the Modern Mind by Jerome Frank
Buy used from: $60.00 A classic work on the meaning and purpose of law.
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 | Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
Buy new: $21.60 / Used from: $3.29 A strong defence of human rights against tendency of law to encroach upon rights.
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| Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic Law (The Islamic-Classical Library Series) by Imam Malik Ibn Anas
Buy used from: $184.97 The classic canon of Islamic laws, manners and morals that guides Muslims of North Africa to this day.
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| Sahih Al-Bukhari by Muhammad ibn Isma'il Bukhari
The modest credible collection of the legal and moral statements of Prophet Mohammed.
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 | The Laws of Manu (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $3.85 A collection of ancient legal thought of India, attributed to Manu, the Hindu equivalent of Adam.
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 | Code Napoleon: Or the French Civil Code by Barrister of the Inner Temple
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $25.16 A canonisation of what is believed to be the legal approach of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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 | Philosophy of Right (Galaxy Books) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Buy new: $30.40 / Used from: $1.24 The most brilliant philosophical inquiries into law, right and the state.
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| Justice: An Historical and Philosophical Essay by Giorgio Del Vecchio
Buy new: $48.57 A forgotten but brilliant work by the most prominent Italian legal theorists of twentieth century.
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| The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the American Bill of Rights : a bicentennial commemoration issued pursuant to S.J. Res. 317, 100th Congress (SuDoc Y 1.1/3:101-9) by U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Two classic celebrations of the rights of human beings.
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 | The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.05 The foundation for American-style democracy.
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 | Magna Carta: Text and Commentary by A. E. Dick Howard
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $5.16 The first legal attempt to restrict the powers of a king. Was the foundation of the democratic revolution in England 400 years later and rest of the world, thereafter.
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 | Hammurabi Code and the Sinaitic Legislation with a Complete Translation of the Great Babylonian Inscription Discovered at Susa by Chilperic Edwards
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $15.82 Some of the oldest canonizations of laws available. Dates back to 2000 B.C.
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| Islamic jurisprudence by Kemal A Faruki
A poorly distributed and obscurely published work that offers the most illuminating insights into the ways in which laws can be interpreted, based on Islamic legal hermeneutics.
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 | The Politics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.07 Aristotle's classic statement on forms of government.
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 | The Republic and The Laws (Oxford World's Classics) by Cicero
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.58 Cicero the Republican's defence of Republic Rome against Caesar and Augustus' quest for Empire.
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 | The Athenian Constitution (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $1.70 An inquiry into the ancient constituitional polity of Athens.
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 | The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition by Plato
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.25 The celebrated statement about who should govern and how they should be selected. Foundation for latter meritocractic theories.
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 | Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $1.48 A celebrated argument for repressive government and legislation. Foundation for statism.
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