#Legal Philosophy

2 books tagged with legal philosophy, sorted by rating.

The Common Law

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

4/5

Law & Legal Philosophy

The Concept of Law

by H. L. A. Hart

4/5

Law & Legal Philosophy

The Common Law

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

4/5

Originally delivered as the Lowell Lectures in 1880 and published in 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s The Common Law is the foundational work of American legal realism. Its opening sentence — "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience" — is the most quoted line in American jurisprudence.

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The Concept of Law

by H. L. A. Hart

4/5

H. L. A. Hart's seminal 1961 work introduced the "rule of recognition" and reshaped legal philosophy in the analytic tradition. Now in its third edition with a substantial introduction by Leslie Green and Hart's own famous Postscript responding to Dworkin.

Law & Legal Philosophy