Philosophy of Law & Legal Theory: A Basic Bibliography
Compiled by Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2009)
Some of the titles are from the discipline of philosophy proper but I thought to include them owing to their demonstrative or possible relevance to philosophy of law and legal theory (Larry Solum’s references in many of the entries in his Legal Theory Lexicon is exemplary in this regard). Still, there is much one might have included that I’ve left out: for example, “neuroethics and law” has become an increasingly important subject area that raises questions (some novel, others long-standing) in part addressed with the conceptual resources provided by philosophy, yet I’ve not included works in the philosophy of mind or the philosophy of science (in this case, neuroscience) essential to treating such questions. As a basic or “select” bibliography, the list is not exhaustive, yet I trust it fairly represents the scope and substance of philosophy of law and legal theory, at least in some parts of the globe. And I welcome suggestions for possible additions to the next draft of this compilation.
Adler, Matthew and Kenneth Himma, eds. The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
Alexander, Larry and Emily Sherwin. Demystifying Legal Reasoning. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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 Press, 2001.
Allen, C.K. Law in the Making. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1964.
Altman, Andrew. Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Anderson, Elizabeth. Value in Ethics and Economics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Arrow, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values. New York: Wiley, 2nd ed., 1963.
Arrow, Kenneth J., ed. Markets and Welfare. London: Macmillan, 1991.
Arrow, Kenneth J., Amartya K. Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds. Social Choice Re-examined, 2 Vols. London: Macmillan, 1996.
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. An Introduction to the Law of Contract. New York: Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 1995.
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. 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).
Austin, J.L. (J.O. Urmson and Marina Shisà, eds.). How to Do Things with Words.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2nd ed., 1975.
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.
Barak, Aharon (Sari Bahsi, tr.). Purposive Interpretation in Law. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
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.
Barry, Brian. The Liberal Theory of Justice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Barry, Brian. Theories of Justice—A Treatise on Social Justice, Vol. 1. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
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.
Besson, Samantha. The Morality of Conflict: Reasonable Disagreement and the Law. Portland, OR: Hart, 2005.
Bicchieri, Cristina. The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Bickel, Alexander M., The Morality of Consent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.
Binmore, Ken. Game Theory and the Social Contract, Vol. 1: Playing Fair. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
Binmore, Ken. Game Theory and the Social Contract, Vol. 2: Just Playing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
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: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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
Maxwell, 2000.
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).
Carty, Anthony. Philosophy of International Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Cassese, Antonio, ed. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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.
Ci, Jiwei. Two Faces of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Clayton, Cornell W. and Howard Gillman, eds. Supreme Court Decision-Making: New
Institutionalist Approaches. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Coady, C.A.J. Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Coady, C.A.J. Morality and Political Violence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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, G.A. Rescuing Justice and Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
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. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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: Butterworths, 1989.
Coyle, Sean and Karen Morrow. The Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Law.Portland, OR: Hart Publ., 2004.
Crenshaw, Kimberle, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller and Kendall Thomas, eds. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. New York: New Press, 1995.
Crisp, Roger. Reasons and the Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Crisp, Roger, ed. How Should One Live? Essays on the Virtues. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Dan-Cohen, Meir. Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Darwall, Stephen. The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Darwall, Stephen, ed. Consequentialism. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Deigh, John. Emotions, Values, and the Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic, eds. Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999.
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.
Detmold, M.J. The Unity of Law and Morality: A Refutation of Legal Positivism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
Detter, Ingrid. The Law of War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2000.
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.
Drobak, John N., ed. Norms and the Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Duff, R.A. Criminal Attempts. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Duff, R.A. Punishment, Communication and Community. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Duff, R.A. Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in Criminal Law. Oxford, UK: Hart, 2007.
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, Gerald. The Theory and Practice of Autonomy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Dworkin, Gerald, ed. Morality, Harm and the Law. Boulder, CO: Westview 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. The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Elster, Jon. Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Elster, Jon. Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.
Elster, Jon. Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Elster, Jon. Ulysses Unbound. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Elster, Jon. Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Elster, Jon. Reason and Rationality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
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.
Epstein, Richard A. Scepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Eskridge, William N., Jr. Dynamic Statutory Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Estlund, David M. Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Fagelson, David. Justice as Integrity: Tolerance and the Moral Momentum of Law. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Fallon, Richard H., Jr. Implementing the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Farnsworth, Ward. The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Farrelly, Colin and Lawrence B. Solum, eds. Virtue Jurisprudence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Feeley, Malcolm M. and Edward L. Rubin. Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America’s Prisons. Cambridge, UK: University Press,
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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:
Oxford University Press, 1985.
Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 3: Harm to Self. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1986.
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: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Feinberg, Joel and Jules Coleman, eds. Philosophy of Law. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
Fichtelberg, Aaron. Law at the Vanishing Point: A Philosophical Analysis of International Law. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.
Fikentscher, Wolfgang. Modes of Thought: A Study in the Anthropology of Law and Religion.
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1995.
Finnis, John. Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Fischer, John Martin and Mark Ravizza. Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Fish, Stanley. Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.
Fisher, William W., Morton J. Horwitz and Thomas A. Reed, eds. American Legal Realism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Fletcher, George. Rethinking Criminal Law. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1978.
Fletcher, George. Basic Concepts of Criminal Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Foot, Philippa. Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 ed.
Franck, Thomas M. Fairness in International Law and Institutions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Freeman, Michael and Ross Harrison, eds. Law and Philosophy (Current Legal Issues, Vol. 10). New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Freeman, Samuel. Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawlsian Political Philosophy New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Freeman, Samuel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Rawls. Cambridge, UK: University