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Sources on history, philosophy and law are listed here.

  • FW Maitland, "Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web." [1]


Ancient world

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Greece

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The School of Athens, depicting Socrates, Plato and Aristotle among others

Rome

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Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882-1888.

Decline and darkness

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Michelangelo: Crucifixion of Christ, 1540
Alphabetical index on the Corpus Juris, Lyon, 1571

Rebirth

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High Middle Ages

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The Magna Carta (1215)

Renaissance

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Machiavelli's The Prince (1513)

Reformation

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Sir Thomas More's Utopia
  • Descartes (1596-1650), who trained as a lawyer

Enlightenment

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Sir William Blackstone, 1774.

Modernity

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Revolution

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US Declaration of Independence, 1776


Great Britain

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John Stuart Mill MP.

Europe

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First page of the 1804 Code Napoleon.

America

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  • Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Fundamental Legal Conceptions, As Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays (1919)

Socialism

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The Communist Manifesto of 1848.

Twentieth Century

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Apocalypse

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File:Soviet Union, Lenin (55).jpg
Vladimir Lenin before the October Revolution.

Language games

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Post War political philosophy

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William Beveridge

The globalisation context

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The fall of the Berlin Wall.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ A Prologue to a History of English Law (1898) 14 LQR 13
  2. ^ LL Fuller and WR Perdue, ‘The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages’ (1936) 46 Yale LJ 52-56
  3. ^ Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 821-22 (1975) "the Star Chamber has, for centuries, symbolized disregard of basic individual rights. The Star Chamber not merely allowed, but required, defendants to have counsel. The defendant's answer to an indictment was not accepted unless it was signed by counsel. When counsel refused to sign the answer, for whatever reason, the defendant was considered to have confessed."
  4. ^ HLA Hart, 'Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals' (1958) 71 Harvard Law Review 593-629 and LL Fuller 'Positivism and Fidelity to Law: A Reply to Professor Hart' (1958) 71(4) Harvard Law Review 630-672
  5. ^ If the arbitration process became the civil court of the UN?
What should the law be?
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