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1.
Baty, T[homas], and J.H. Morgan.
War: Its Conduct and Legal Results. New York: E.P. Dutton and
Company, 1915. xxviii, 578 pp. Reprinted December 2005 by The
Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 1-58477-573-4. Cloth. $95.
* The authors argue that the war has effectively ended the existing
system of international law, a system that was already in decline
due to the growing economic and political interdependence of states.
These changes have created a new set of problems that will provide
the basis of international law when the war ends. In addition to
supplying an intellectual framework for this new system, Baty and
Morgan address practical topics like international arbitration and
more abstract issues like clash between nationalism and
cosmopolitanism. “[V]ery good reading....It is a thoughtful book.”:
T.S.W., Yale Law Journal 19:313-314.  
2.
Baty, T[homas].
International Law. London: John Murray, 1909. 364 pp.
Reprinted December 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN
1-58477-563-7. Cloth. $95.
* Baty provides a thorough review of international incidents
throughout nineteenth century Europe, the Near East and the Americas
relating to arbitration, penetration, territorialism and similar
subjects. He concludes that international law manifested in
agreements among nations would be supplanted by a less rigid system
governed by contracts. This will happen, he reasons, due to the
greater economic interdependence of nations brought about by
globalization. Anticipating the effects of 21st-century globalism,
Baty concludes by outlining the ways this interdependence will
occur, and some of its potential dangers.
3.
Bridgman, Raymond L, Editor.
The First Book of World Law: A Compilation of the International
Conventions to Which the Principal Nations are Signatory, With a
Survey of Their Significance. Published for the World Peace
Foundation. [Boston]: Ginn and Company Publishers, 1911. v, 308 pp.
Reprinted December 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN
1-58477-555-6. Cloth. $85.
* Included in the list of important titles recommended for all
working libraries of international law by Fenwick, this book
contains the complete texts of key international conventions that
were in force at the time of publication. These are arranged by
topic into 22 chapters, each with extensive introductions and
annotations. Civil and military matters are given equal attention,
as are agreements dealing with governmental and non-governmental
agencies. Fenwick, International Law (3rd. ed.) xxv-l.
4. [Burke, Edmund].
Burke Select Works. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
E.J. Payne. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881. 2 Vols. lxii, 328;
lxx, 384 pp. Reprinted December 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
2005. ISBN 1-58477-599-8. Cloth. $150.
* An appealing compilation of Burke’s principal works, including On
the Causes of the Present Discontents (1770), which treats
the expulsion of Wilkes from Parliament and the value of political
parties, the speech On Conciliation with the American Colonies
(1775), which supported the cause of the colonists, and
Reflections on the Revolution in
France
(1790), a classic criticism of the revolution and its actors. Burke
[1729-1797] is considered a founder of modern conservatism. This is
true to some extent, but not quite. He believed in popular
government and recognized the inevitability of change. Indeed, he
believed that a state that could not adapt to change was a state
doomed to failure.
5. Douglas, Charles H.J.
The Financial History of Massachusetts: From the Organization of the
Massachusetts Bay Company to the American Revolution.
New York: The University Faculty of Political Science of Columbia
College, 1891. 148 pp. Reprinted December 2005 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-572-6. Cloth. $65.
* Douglas divides the history of Massachusetts into two periods,
each with distinct financial characteristics: “the period of her
dependency on the British crown, and period of her membership in the
American union” (12). Each of these periods is divided once again,
resulting in a four-part model of her financial history. Originally
published in the series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law
edited by the Political Science Faculty of Columbia University, this
title is a valuable for its insights into the socio-economic
foundations of Massachusetts society.
6.
Drage, Geoffrey, Translator.
The Criminal Code of the German Empire.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. xv, 365 pp. Reprinted December 2005
by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-593-9. Cloth. $90.
* The German Criminal Code (Reichsstrafgesetzbuch) was
ratified by the newly-formed German Empire on 16 April 1871. It is a
remarkable work of synthesis drawn mostly the Constitutio
Criminalis Carolina (1532), the Code Napoleon (1804),
Feuerbach’s Bavarian Criminal Code (1813) and the Prussian Penal
Code (1851), which was influenced by the Code Napoleon. Its value
lay not just in its establishment of uniform federal law but, as
Drage notes in his excellent commentary, in its catholicity of
historical and contemporary sources. Drawing on the idea of German
unity, underscored in this case by the consensus-forming might of
Prussian arms, the criminal code remained in force, despite various
efforts at reform, until the triumph of National Socialism.
7.
Egerton, M.A., and W.L. Grant, Editors.
Canadian Constitutional Development: Shown by Selected Speeches and
Despatches, with Introductions and Explanatory Notes.
Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited, [1907]. xxii, 472 pp.
Reprinted December 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN
1-58477-613-7. Cloth. $95.
* This thoroughly annotated collection of source documents from 1760
to 1867 traces the evolution of Canada’s constitution from the time
of the British conquest to the confederation. The sections, which
are arranged according to historical turning points, are
“Instructions to Governor James Murray,” “The Quebec Act,” “The
Constitutional Act of 1791,” “Proposals for Union,” “Lord Durham’s
Report,” “Responsible Government in the Maritime Provinces,”
“Responsible Government,” “The Annexation Movement,” “The Tariff
Controversy,” and “Federation.”
8. Goodnow, Frank Johnson.
Comparative Administrative Law: An Analysis of the Administrative
Systems, National and Local, of the
United States, England, France and Germany.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1897. 2 Vols. Reprinted December 2005
by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-622-6. Cloth. $195.
* Reprint of the first edition. Volume I: Organization. Volume II:
Legal Relations. Referring to this book in One Hundred Years of
Administrative Law (1937), Arthur Vanderbilt wrote that “Goodnow
was the first to perceive the peculiar significance for the study of
administrative law of the comparative method as applied to the
administrative systems of France, Germany, England and the United
States, which, although involving common problems, also present
sharp contrasts at many vital points” (I:120-121). A member of the
Columbia faculty, Goodnow [1859-1939] was the first individual in
the United States to hold a professorship in administrative law.
9.
Goss, John Dean.
The History of Tariff Administration in the
United States: From Colonial Times to the McKinley Administration
Bill.
New York: [Columbia University], 1891. 89 pp. Reprinted December
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-574-2. Cloth. $65.
* Goss traces the tariff system through three avatars that often
existed simultaneously: protective, preventive and punitive. From an
ineffective colonial system that allowed importers to avoid payment
through extended credit arrangements, to a somewhat less troubled
system that demanded immediate cash payments in the early 1840s, to
a punitive system designed to stymie smugglers during the Civil War,
the collection of tariff duties was always problematic. This problem
was enhanced in the wake of industrialization and protectionism when
direct taxes began to supplant indirect taxation as the major source
of government finance. Reviewing the history of American tariff
regulation, Goss discerns a gradual process towards “more stringent
supervision, regulation and control” (88).
History of Anglo-American Codification
10. Lang, Maurice Eugen.
Codification in the
British Empire and America.
Amsterdam: H.J. Paris, 1924. [xiv], 204 pp. Reprinted December 2005
by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN 1-58477-620-X. Cloth. $65.
* Lang analyzes efforts made in the United Kingdom and the United
States to replace or modify the common law with codes since the
origins of codification in the nineteenth century. Lang is
especially interested in the tension between written codes, which
are characteristic of continental law, and the common law, which is
grounded in custom. Since its publication in 1924, this book has
been cited often in articles dealing with codes and comparative law.
11.
Launspach, Charles, W.L.
State And Family in Early Rome.
London: George Bell And Sons, 1908. xx, 288 pp. Reprinted December
2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-542-4. Cloth. $80.
* Charles W. L. Launspach, barrister and member of the Inner Temple,
argues that in its “infancy and adolescence” early Rome was “a
conscious imitation of the ancient Gens or ancient Family, that its
theory of government was founded upon the relations existing between
kinsmen, and that these again, were determined by religious notions
which later became transformed through developments with the City
and external influences” (Foreword, v). The early state was neither
a democracy nor an autocracy because its roots were neither purely
economic nor political. When expansion and internal change drew the
Roman commonwealth away from its familial roots, the underlying
assumptions that had bound the state fragmented and the
constitutional order was gradually supplanted by more authoritarian
structures.
12. Lawrence, T[homas] J[oseph].
The Society of Nations: Its Past, Present, and Possible Future.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1919. xi, 194 pp. Reprinted
December 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-562-9.
Cloth. $75.
* Lawrence [1849-1919] addresses the possibility of a league of
nations, which was a keenly debated topic when he completed this
book in October 1918. He believed that such a league will come into
being because “there is a real Society of Nations, that...grew up by
a gradual process of evolution which can be followed
historically,...and was on the point of developing certain much
needed judicial and legislative organs when the present war brought
about a crisis in its life....”: Introduction vi. After tracing its
evolution and explaining how the war was a result of deviations from
its proper path, Lawrence offers a set of proposals to create a
successful league.
13.
McIlwain, Charles Howard.
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation. New
York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. xi, 198 pp. Reprinted December
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 1-58477-568-8. Cloth. $75.
* In this work, which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize in history,
McIlwain argues that the central problem in the genesis of the
American Revolution was the determination of the exact nature of the
British Empire’s constitution. “After a searching examination of a
wealth of judicial precedents drawn largely from Ireland’s relations
with the English king and parliament, the author reaches the
conclusion that ‘there was a bona fide constitutional issue which
preceded the American Revolution, and from which it in part
resulted.’ He contends that, strictly from the legal standpoint, the
colonists had a number of good constitutional precedents to support
their position.”: Allison, Fay, [et. al.] A Guide to Historical
Literature.
14.
Phillips, Walter Alison.
The Confederation of
Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823 as an Experiment
in the International Organization of Peace.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. xviii, 320 pp. Reprinted
December 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-554-8.
Cloth. $90.
* reprint of the second edition. Phillips [1864-1950] believed that
World War I, though greater in scale, was similar to earlier
European conflicts. Hopeful that the newly formed League of Nations
could learn a useful lesson from the past, he offers an account of
its most successful forerunner, the European alliance of 1813-1823,
which was formed at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Reaching its
apogee in the Congress of Vienna, the alliance initiated a brief but
fruitful era of political stability. After enumerating the factors
that ended the alliance, Phillips uses these examples to advise the
new League of analogous problems it may face.
15.
Smith, Herbert Arthur.
Federalism in North America. A Comparative Study of Institutions in
the United States and Canada.
Boston: The Chipman Law Publishing Company, 1923. v, 328 pp.
Reprinted December 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN
1-58477-624-2. Cloth. $85.
* This study compares the constitutions and federal governments of
the United States and Canada. His scope also includes such
influential extra-governmental institutions as political parties.
“Mr. Smith’s book, as a whole, is remarkably accurate and the author
has compressed an immense deal of information and of sound,
penetrating comment into small space. (...) Mr. Smith’s book may be
commended unqualifiedly as a careful, objective and valuable study
in a field too much neglected in this country.”: Henry M. Bates,
Michigan Law Review 22 (1923-1924) 287.
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