CHAIRPERSON’S RECOMMENDED READINGS

TEXTBOOKS

  1. Edgar Bodenheimer – Jurisprudence: The Philosophy and Method of the Law
  2. Lloyd’s – Introduction to Jurisprudence (Freeman, ed.)
  3. R.W.M. Dias – Jurisprudence
  4. Wayne Morrison – Jurisprudence: From the Greeks to Post-Modernism
  5. W. Friedmann – Legal Theory

CLASSICAL NATURAL LAW (GREEK, ROMAN & CHRISTIAN)

  1. Sophocles – Antigone
  2. Plato – The Republic and Laws
  3. Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric
  4. Cicero – On the Republic (De Re Publica)
  5. St. Augustine – On Free Choice of the Will (De Libero Arbitrio)
  6. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica (selected questions on law)

THE IS-OUGHT DISTINCTION

  1. David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature
  2. Immanuel Kant – Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten) and Critique of Practical Reason (Critik  der practischen Vernunft)

SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIES

  1. Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
  2. John Locke – Second Treatise of Government
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract (Du Contrat social)

LEGAL POSITIVISM

  1. Jeremy Bentham – Of Laws in General
  2. John Austin – The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

NORMATIVE ORDER

  1. Hans Kelsen – Pure Theory of Law

INCLUSIVE AND EXCLUSIVE LEGAL POSITIVISM

  1. H.L.A. Hart – The Concept of Law
  2. Joseph Raz – The Authority of Law

REVIVED NATURAL LAW

  1. Gustav Radbruch – Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law
  2. Lon L. Fuller – The Morality of Law
  3. John Finnis – Natural Law and Natural Rights

INTERPRETATIVE/THIRD THEORY

  1. Ronald Dworkin – Law’s Empire

SOCIOLOGICAL SCHOOL

  1. Rudolf von Ihering – Law as a Means to an End
  2. Roscoe Pound – Jurisprudence
  3. Émile Durkheim – The Division of Labour in Society (De la division du travail social)
  4. Julius Stone – The Province and Function of Law

HISTORICAL SCHOOL

  1. Henry Maine – Ancient Law
  2. Friedrich Carl von Savigny – Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and JurisprudenceSystem of Modern Roman Law (Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft) and System of Modern Roman Law (System des heutigen römischen Rechts)

STUDY OF ALLEGORIES IN JURISPRUDENCE

  1. Lon L. Fuller – The Case of the Speluncean Explorers (published in the Harvard Law Review, 1949) and The story of King Rex (Chapter II, Page 33, The Morality of Law)
  2. Plato – Allegory of the cave (Book VII, The Republic)

RIGHTS

  1. G.W. Paton – A Textbook of Jurisprudence
  2. John Salmond – Salmond on Jurisprudence
  3. Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld – Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (Yale Law Journal)
  4. Bhikhu Parekh – The Modern Conception of Right and Its Marxist Critique (India International Centre Quarterly)

JUSTICE

  1. John Rawls – A Theory of Justice and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
  2. Robert Nozick – Anarchy, State, and Utopia

LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY

  1. C.K. Ogden and I. A. Richards – The Meaning of Meaning
  2. Ludwig Wittgenstein – Philosophical Investigations
  3. Bertrand Russel – The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

CASE LAW – INDICATIVE, NOT EXHAUSTIVE

  • Oppenheimer v Cattermole [1976] AC 249.
  • R (Jackson) v Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56.
  • Omprakash & Ors v Radhacharan 2009 INSC 671.
  • The State v Dosso PLD 1958 SC 533.
  • Asma Jilani v Government of Punjab PLD 1972 SC 139.
  • Uganda v Commissioner of Prisons, ex parte Michael Matovu [1966] 1 EA 514.
  • Texas v White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700 (1869).
  • Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke and another [1969] 1 AC 645.
  • The United States of America v Josef Altstötter, et al. 3 T.W.C. 1 (1948), 6 L.R.T.W.C. 1 (1948), 14 Ann. Dig. 278 (1948).
  • Oberlandesgericht Bamberg [OLG] [Bamberg Provincial High Court and Court of Appeal] July 27, 1949, 5 S ¨uddeutsche Juristen-Zeitung [SJZ] 207 (207–10), 1950 (Ger.) Translation can be found in the Appendix of “The Grudge Informer Case Revisited” by David Dyzenhaus NewYorkUniversityLawReview Volume 83, Number 4, October 2008.
  • Puttfarken Case quoted in Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law (1946) by Radbruch. In the immediate post-war period, official reports of judicial proceedings were not generally available, and so Radbruch quotes extensively here from newspaper accounts.
  • Riggs v Palmer, 115 N.Y. 506 (1889).
  • Henningsen v Bloomfield Motors, Inc. 32 N.J. 358, 161 A.2d 69 (N.J. 1960).
  • Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562.
  • The Edward Mills Co. Ltd., Beawar, And Ors v The State Of Ajmer And Anr AIR 1955 SC 25.