Philosophy and history of law resources

o       Atkinson & Sargent, Private Law, Social Life: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2007)

o       Berkowitz, R., Leibniz’s Legal Science and the Birth of Positive Law (Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2002)

o       Bickenbach, J., Canadian cases in the philosophy of law, 4th ed. (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2007)

o       Culver K., Readings in the philosophy of law, 2nd ed. (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008)

o       Dyzenhaus et al., Law and Morality: Readings in Legal Philosophy, 3d ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)

o       Fitzgerald, O., The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006)

o       Mercuro & Medema, Economics and the law: From Posner to Postmodernism and Beyond, 2nd ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)

o       Muttart, D., The empirical gap in jurisprudence: a comprehensive study of the Supreme Court of Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)

o       Schauer, R., Is There a Concept of Law (Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2007)

o       Stone, M., Positivism as Opposed to What?: Law and The Moral Concept of Right (Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2007)

o       Walker & Fraser, The Great Canadian Sedition Trials: The Courts and the Winnipeg General Strike, 1919-1920 (Winnipeg: Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba and the Canadian Legal History Project, 2004)

 

o       Bankowski & MacLean, The Universal and the Particular in Legal Reasoning (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)

o       Blackstone, W., Commentaries on the Laws of England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979)

o       Brooks, R., Plato and Modern Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)

o       Brundage, J., The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)

o       Bryan, M., Private law in theory and practice (Oxford: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006)

o       Freeman & Harrison, Law and philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       Gerhardt, M., The Power of Precedent (Oxford Oxford University Press, 2008)

o       Kramer, M., Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

o       Lucy, W., Philosophy of Private Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       MacCormick, N., Institutions of Law: An Essay in Legal Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       Outhwaite, R., The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

o       Roesch & Gagnon, Psychology and Law: Criminal and Civil Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)

o       Simmonds, N., Law as a Moral Idea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       Stebbings, C., Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

o       Tucker, P., Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London, 1300-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

 

o       Cardozo, B., Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, the Growth of the Law, the Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature (Birmingham, Alabama: Legal Classics Library, 1982)

o       Cooter & Ulen, Law & Economics, 5th ed. (Boston: Pearson/Addison Wesley, 2008)

o       Grossberg & Tomlins, The Cambridge history of law in America (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008)

o       Harrison & Theeuwes, Law & Economics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008)

o       Strickland, Foster, & Banks, Screening Justice - The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (Buffalo, N.Y.: W.S. Hein, 2006)  

o       Vinx, L., Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law: legality and legitimacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

 

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