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Jurisprudence / Legal Theory

Campos, Paul F.  Against the Law.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.  

Cardozo, Benjamin N.  The Selected Writings of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo.  New York:
 Fallon, 1947. 

Cooter, Robert. 

 - - Law and Economics. 2d ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.  
 
 - - The Strategic Constitution.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Dworkin, Ronald.

 - - Freedom's Law:  The Moral Reading of the American Constitution.
 Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1996.

 - - Law's Empire.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1986.

Fletcher, George P.  The Basic Concepts of Legal Thought. New York: Oxford University
 Press, 1996.    

Frank, Jerome.  Law and the Modern Mind. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1970.

Friedman, David D.  Law's Order: What Economics Has To Do with Law and Why It Matters.
 Princeton: Princeton Univesity Press, 2000. 

Friedman, Lawrence M.  The Republic of Choice:  Law, Authority, and Culture. Cambridge,
 MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.   
 
Garth, Bryant G. and Austin Sarat, eds.  How Does Law Matter?  Evanston: Northwestern
 University Press, 1998.    

Guest, Stephen.  Ronald Dworkin. 2d ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.  
 
Hart, H.L.A.  The Concept of Law. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.  The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches,
 Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  Edited and with
 an introduction by Richard A. Posner.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1992. 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.  Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes
 and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932.  2d. ed.  Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1961.

Hutchinson, Allan C.  It's All in the Game: A Nonfoundationalist Account of Law and
 Adjudication.  Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.

Kelman, Mark.  A Guide to Critical Legal Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
 1987.   
 
Leoni, Bruno.  Freedom and the Law. 3d ed. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991.  

Minda, Gary.  Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence at Century's End.
 New York: New York University Press, 1995.    

Murphy, Jeffrie G.  Philosophy of Law: An Introduction to Jurisprudence. Rev. ed. Boulder:
 Westview Press, 1990.

Noonan, John T.  Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson and Wythe as
 Makers of the Masks.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Porsdam, Helle.  Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law.  Amherst:
 University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Posner, Richard.

 - - Economic Analysis of Law.  5th ed.  New York: Aspen Law and Business, 1998.

 - - The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1999.

 - - The Problems of Jurisprudence.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

 - - Sex and Reason.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Postema, Gerald J.  Bentham and the Common Law Tradition. New York: Oxford University
 Press, 1986. 

Pound, Roscoe.  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law.  Rev. ed.  New Haven: Yale
 University Press, 1954.  

Rosenfeld, Michael.  Just Interpretations:  Law Between Ethics and Politics.  Santa Monica:
 University of California Press, 1998.  
 
Tribe, Lawrence H. and Michael C. Dorf. On Reading the Constitution. Cambridge, MA:
 Harvard University Press, 1991.    

Waldron, Jeremy.  Law and Disagreement.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.    
 West, Robin. Caring for Justice. New York: New York University, 1997.

Wise, Steven M.  Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals.  Cambridge, MA:
 Perseus Books, 2000.