For over a century, English and French lawyers have compared their respective laws of contract. But the purpose of such comparisons has never been agreed. A recent volume of essays by both English and French authors, Contract Law Today: Anglo-French Comparisons, edited by Donald Harris and Denis Tallon, prompts these reflections upon the methods and...Read More

British jurist, philosopher, social reformer. He wrote several famous books including Of Laws in General (1782) And An Introduction to the Principles of Morals And Legislation (1789). He did not believe in God – he was an atheist. He was a social reform advocate and he wrote on many topics including: Women’s rights Animal rights...Read More

“The life of the law has not been logic – it has been experience” He is often known as the intellectual father of Legal Realism Holmes was a lawyer for 15 years, a judge on the Supreme Court of Massachusetts for 20 years and an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court for 30...Read More

Australian academic, currently Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His book Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980) is one of the most important recent books on the philosophy of law. His book has been criticized by many intellectuals. Around 700 years after Thomas Aquinas, John Finnis returned to Aquinas’ ideas and tried to reformulate a modern...Read More

A legal philosopher who played a leading role in the legal realism movement. He was made a judge of the United States Court of Appeals in 1941 (prior to that he had worked as a lawyer since 1912) – a graduate of Yale. He published many books including Law and the Modern Mind in 1930...Read More