History of Law: 19 assorted volumes - Roscoe Pound

series of lectures given in the William L. Storrs lecture series in 1921 at the Yale University Law School.

Ancient Law, Its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
A classic work on the history of law by one of the great English jurists of the 19th century. Another great English jurist, Sir Frederick Pollock wrote an introduction and extensive notes.

Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
by Hammurabi
The book contains the code of Hammurabi, the prologue and epilogue, letters by Hammurabi and other political leaders, as well as a detailed discussion of the historical and legal background static/of Babylonian and Assyrian laws.

Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Volume consisting of Maine’s lectures at the University of Oxford. This volume is drawn from a number of his courses and deals with a range of topics as religion and the law, the Salic law, feudal property and the classification of property.

Institutes of Roman Law - 160 A.D.
by Gaius
An edition with Latin, English translations, and extensive editorial commentary. The Institutes of Roman Law is Gaius’ best known work which became the authoritative legal text during the late Roman Empire. It was the first systematic collection and analysis of Roman law which dealt with all aspects of Roman law: the legal status of persons (slaves, free persons, and citizens), property rights, contracts, and various legal actions.

Law in a Free State
by Wordsworth Donisthorpe
A collection of essays by a radical individualist political thinker on a range of topics which he called "the hardest nuts to crack", in other words, topics which pushed the theory of individual liberty to its limits. He discusses questions of libel, of cruelty to animals, of copyright, of adulteration, of the relation of the sexes, of rights over land, and of nuisance.

Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
The sequel to his more famous book on *Ancient Law” in which Maine examines kinship, tribal society, early legal remedies and sovereignty.

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John, with an Historical Introduction
by William Sharp McKechnie
This is a detailed and meticulous edition of Magna Carta with each clause in the original Latin, followed by an English translation and heavily annotated by the editor.

Magna Carta Commemoration Essays
edited by Henry Elliot Malden
A collection of essays about the history and continuing significance of Magna Carta.

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History vol. 1
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History vol. 2
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History vol. 3
by various authors, compiled and edited by a committee of the Association of American Law Schools, in three volumes
A massive three volume collection of essays by leading American and English legal experts which surveys
the entire body of Anglo-American law.
Volume 1 is a general survey.
Volume 2 covers particular topics such as the sources of English law, the court system, procedure and equity
Volume 3 covers particular topics such as commercial law, torts, property, wills and marriage.

Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 1
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 2
by Viscount James Bryce
Two volume collection of Bryce’s essays and articles on the Roman and British Empires, constitutional history and theory, obedience, sovereignty, the law of nature , and legal history.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens: A Contribution to Modern Constitutional History
by Georg Jellinek
An analysis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen showing the impact which American practice and theory had on French thinking about constitutional law.

The Genius of the Common Law
by Frederick Pollock
The Carpentier Lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1911. They are an introduction to the history and ideas behind the English Common Law.

The Ideal Element of Law
by Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring ideals. Now published in the U.S. for the first time, Pound’s lectures are collected in Liberty Fund’s The Ideal Element in Law, Pound’s most important contribution to the relationship between law and liberty. The Ideal Element in Law was a radical book for its time and is just as meaningful today as when Pound’s lectures were first delivered. Pound’s view of the welfare state as a means of expanding government power over the individual speaks to the front-page issues of the new millennium as clearly as it did to America in the mid-twentieth century. Pound argues that the theme of justice grounded in enduring ideals is critical for America. He views American courts as relying on sociological theories, political ends, or other objectives, and in so doing, divorcing the practice of law from the rule of law and the rule of law from the enduring ideal of law itself.

The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law,
edited by Ellis Sandoz
This is a critical collection of essays on the origin and nature of the idea of liberty. The authors explore the development
of English ideas of liberty and the relationship those ideas hold to modern conceptions of rule of law. The essays address early medieval developments, encompassing such seminal issues as the common-law mind of the sixteenth century under the Tudor monarchs, the struggle for power and authority between the Stuart kings and Parliament in the seventeenth century, and the role of the ancient constitution in the momentous legal and constitutional debate that occurred between the Glorious Revolution and the American Declaration of Independence.

The Story of Law
by John Maxcy Zane
Written for the layman as well as the attorney, The Story of Law is the only complete outline history of the law ever published. Zane lucidly describes the growth and improvement of the law over thousands of years, and he points out that an increasing awareness of the individual as a person who is responsible for decision and action gradually transformed the law.