Philosophy of Law [part II]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on philosophy of law; for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com 1. CARDOZO, Benjamin N. The Nature of the Judicial Process. Twenty-third Printing. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1965. Printed wraps, somewhat faded, neat underlining; 180 pages. [30056] $ 15.00 Justice Cardozo's most famous work, his lectures delivered at Yale in 1921, in Judge Posner's words "the first systematic effort by a judge to explain how judges reason [and] the first serious effort by a judge to articulate a judicial philosophy". 2. CARDOZO, Benjamin N. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. Columbia University Press, New York, 1928. Original maroon cloth, a very good copy in a chipped dustjacket. [66505] $ 150.00 First edition of one of Cardozo's three major works which, in their totality, Judge Posner has recently characterized as "the fullest statement of a jurisprudence of pragmatism that we possess.". 3. DODERIDGE, Sir John. The English Lawyer. Describing A Method for the managing of the Lawes of this Land. And expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student Practizer Judges and Fathers of the same. Printed by the Assignes of I. More Esq., London, 1631. Modern calf, gilt, definite embrowning; a sound copy. [59011 XYL64] $ 2,250.00 First and only early edition of Dodderidge's singular attempt to determine the qualities of the lawyer and law student, and to probe the fundamental nature of law, including its essential grounds and maxims. 4. DOMAT, Jean. The Civil Law in Its Natural Order. Translated from the French By William Strahan . . . Advocate in Doctors' Commons. Edited, from the Second London Edition by Luther Cushing. Two Volumes. Cohen 5264. Charles C. Little and James Brown [imprint varies], Boston, 1850-61. Later buckram, worn, ex-Library of Congress, a sturdy set only. [66285 L67] $ 250.00 The only American edition of the masterwork of Domat, "the foremost [French legal] writer of the seventeenth century", influential upon Pothier and the Code Napoleon; with an appendix listing the Roman law rubrics found in the text. 5. DWORKIN, Ronald. Law's Empire. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1986. A very good copy, in the dustjacket. [66297 L67] $ 45.00 6. FERRI, Enrico. The Positive School of Criminology. Charles H Kerr & Company, Chicago, 1908. [14069 L14E] $ 50.00 7. FISHER, William W., et al (eds.). American Legal Realism. Oxford University Press, New York, 1993. Original cloth, a very good copy. [66707] $ 65.00 Based on materials submitted to a faculty seminar at Harvard Law School, and co-edited by Morton Horwitz, with essays and contributions by Justice Holmes (3), Roscoe Pound (3), Karl Llewellyn (5), Thurman Arnold, Max Radin, and many others. 8. FRANK, Jerome. Courts on Trial, Myth and Reality in American Justice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1949. A good copy, in quite a worn and chipped dustjacket. [66349 L67] $ 65.00 Frank's last work, "[w]itty and didactic, contentious and unsettling", offering a blueprint for major reform of the trial courts, placing him squarely in the camp of the 'fact-skeptics', and securing him a unique niche in American legal realism. 9. FRIEDRICH, Carl Joachim. The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1958. [63198] $ 45.00 With essays on Plato and Aristotle, Coke, Bacon and Hobbes, Locke and Montesquieu, among many others; valuable. 10. FULLER, Lon L. Anatomy of the Law. The New American Library, New York, 1969. Printed wraps, well-preserved; 192 pages. [30059] $ 15.00 Fuller's last work, described as "a truly superb effort", appearing shortly after Fuller's visit at Oxford, the home of his long time intellectual adversary, H.L.A. Hart, the two of whom "rejuvenated the subject of legal theory in our time". **************************** Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. 2141 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94110 415 255 6400 415 255 6499 FAX rar...@meyerbos.com www.meyerbos.com Member, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers 1. We ship and bill to our established customers 2. Payment by check in US$ drawn on a US bank 3. VISA and MasterCard also accepted 4. Books fully returnable if received back within 30 days of dispatch and in the same condition as shipped 5. Insured shipping additional within the continental United States at $4.50 for the first book and $1.50 for each additional book; international rates quoted.