226. Adams, W.H. Davenport
Learned in the Law; or Examples and Encouragements from the Lives of Eminent Lawyers.
London: S.W. Partridge & Co., [1882?]
vi, 392 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-238-7. Cloth. $80.

227. [Brandeis, Louis D.]
Brandeis on Zionism.
A Collection of Addresses and Statements by Louis D. Brandeis with a Foreword by Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. Washington, D.C.: Zionist Organization of America, [1942]
viii, 156 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-49331. ISBN 1-886363-60-9. Cloth. $65.

228. Brightwell, C.L.
Memorials of the Early Lives and Doings of Great Lawyers.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1866
251 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-236-0. Cloth. $65.

229. [Cardozo, Benjamin]
Law is Justice. Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo.
Foreword by Robert F. Wagner. Edited by A.L. Sainer.
New York: Ad Press Ltd., [1938]. xvii, 441 pp. Frontis. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-34154. ISBN 1-58477-010-4. Cloth. $75.

230. Curtis, Benjamin R.
A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D.
With some of his Professional and Miscellaneous Writings.
Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1879.
Two volumes. Illustrated. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-235-2. Cloth. $175.

231. Darrow, Clarence and William J. Bryan
The World’s Most Famous Court Trial. Tennessee Evolution Case. A Complete Stenographic Report of the Famous Court Test of the Anti-Evolution Act, at Dayton July 10 to 21, 1925, Including Speeches and Arguments of Attorneys.
Cincinnati: National Book Company, [1925]
[4], 339 pp. Reprinted 1997
LCCN 97-38485. ISBN 1-886363-31-5. Cloth. $75.
See items 198 and 199 in section Law & Literature for more titles by Clarence Darrow.

232. [Field, Stephen Johnson]. Pomeroy, John Norton
Some Account of the Work of Stephen J. Field as a Legislator, State Judge, and Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.
[n.p.]: [[S.B. Smith], 1881. 464 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-326-X Cloth. $90.
* Stephen Johnson Field [1816-1899] began his career as a legislator and member of the Supreme Court of California, where he was the draftsman of the 1851 California Practice Act. Appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1863, he remained on the bench until 1897. He also served a concurrent term as a circuit court judge for the Pacific states. One of the great justices of the nineteenth century, he had a lasting influence on constitutional law through his contributions to Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence and its Due Process Clause. Dictionary of American Biography III:373. In this book Pomeroy [1828-1885], the equally influential author of the Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence , surveys and analyzes every significant opinion delivered by Field throughout his career, with an emphasis on his years in the U.S. Supreme Court and on the circuit.

233. Field, Stephen J[ohnson].
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, with Other Sketches... To Which is added the Story of his Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Hon. George C. Gorman.
[Washington, D.C.]: Printed for a Few Friends. Not Published, [1893]
vi, 406 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-067118. ISBN 1-58477-133-X. Cloth. $85.

234. Foss, Edward
The Judges of England; with Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts of Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848-1864
Nine volumes. Reprintedy 2003
ISBN 1-58477-304-9. Cloth. $895.
* Authoritative biographies of chancellors, masters of the rolls, and judges of the courts are provided for each reign, from the time of the Norman Conquest through the reign of Queen Victoria. Based on original sources, it is an important reference work for legal historians. Frequently cited by Holdsworth in A History of English Law.
- Volume I covers the years 1066-1199 and the reigns of William I, William II, Henry I, Stephen Henry II and Richard I.
- Volume II covers the years 1199-1272 and the reigns of John and Henry III.
- Volume III covers the years 1272-1377 and the reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III.
- Volume IV covers the years 1377-1485 and the reigns of Richard II, Henry Iv, Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III.
- Volume V covers the years 1485-1603 and the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth.
- Volume VI covers the years 1603-1660 and the reigns of James I, Charles I and the Interregnum.
- Volume VII covers the years 1660-1714 and the reigns of Charles II, James II, William III and Anne.
- Volume VIII covers the years 1714-1820 and the reigns of George I, George II and George III.
- Volume IX covers the years 1820-1864 and the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria.
“A” rated American Association of Law Schools, Law Books Recommended for Librarians.

235. Foss, Edward
A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England From the Conquest to the Present Time 1066-1870.
London: John Murray, 1870
xv, 792 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-12577. ISBN 1-886363-86-2. Cloth. $100.

Edward Foss [1787-1870] was a founder and later president of the Incorporated Law Society. A prolific magazine contributor during his professional practice, upon retirement he dedicated himself to a study of the history of the legal profession, and lent various materials from his collection to Lord Campbell for Lives of the Chancellors. In 1843 he published The Grandeur of the Law and then went on to write his nine volume master work, The Judges of England, published over a sixteen year period; “the standard authority” in its field according to J.C. Robertson in the Law Times of Sept. 24, 1870, quoted in Dictionary of National Biography VII:491-492.

 

236. Goodhart, Arthur L.
Five Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law.
London: Oxford University Press, 1949
[4], 74 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-049934. ISBN 1-58477-045-7. Cloth. $60.

237. [Hamilton, Alexander]. Ford, Paul Leicester
Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Alexander Hamilton.
New York: Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press, 1886
vi, [80] pp. (irregular pagination). Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-285-9. Cloth. $85.
See item 216 in section Legal Bibliography for more information on this title.

238. Hankey, The Right Hon. Lord
Politics, Trials and Errors.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1950]
 xiv, 150 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-228-X.
Cloth. $65.
* Lord Hankey [1877-1963] served as secretary of the British cabinet during the Second World War. This allowed him the rare opportunity to observe crucial events at the highest political levels, which he describes in this volume. Hankey opposes the Allied policy of unconditional surrender and desire to hold war crime trials, goals that were announced during the middle years of the war. He takes the position that the former encouraged the Axis to take desperate measures to prolong the war, a policy that led to needless destruction and death, and dismisses the latter as empty propaganda that did nothing for the victims and impeded the peace process.

239. Harris, Virgil M.
Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911
xiv, 472 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-20588. ISBN 1-886363-93-5. Cloth. $80.

240. Hicks, Frederick
Men and Books Famous in the Law.
With an introduction by Harlan F. Stone.
Rochester, New York: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing, 1921
259 pp. Reprinted 1992
LCCN 92-070809. ISBN 0-9630106-2-X. Cloth. $50.

241. Holdsworth, W.S.
The Historians of Anglo-American Law.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1928
175 pp. Reprinted 1994
ISBN 0-9630106-9-7. Cloth. $50.

242. Hutchinson, John.
A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars, with Brief Biographical Notices.
[London]: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, 1902
xiv, 284 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002041361. ISBN 1-58477-323-5
 Cloth. $80.
* Brief biographies of nearly one thousand distinguished Templars admitted between 1501 to 1901, such as Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Henry Fielding, Sir William Jones, Lord Kenyon and Sir John Skene. A handy volume for the scholar of English law.

243. Jacobs, Clyde E.
Law Writers and the Courts. The Influence of Thomas M. Cooley, Christopher
G. Tiedeman, and John F. Dillon upon American Constitutional Law
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954
x, 223 pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-195-X. Cloth. $85.

244. James I.
The Political Works of James I. Reprinted from the Edition of 1616.
With an Introduction by Charles Howard McIlwain
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918
cxi, 354 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001053981. ISBN 1-58477-222-0. Cloth. $95.

245. [Kent, James]. Horton, John Theodore
James Kent: A Study in Conservatism, 1763-1847.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., [1939]
xi, 354 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-056927. ISBN 1-58477-069-4. Cloth. $80.

246. [Kent, James]. Kent, William
Memoirs and Letters of James Kent, L.L.D.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898
x, 341 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-026688. ISBN 1-58477-100-3. Cloth. $75.

247. Kilbourn, Dwight C.
The Bench and Bar of Litchfield County, Connecticut 1709-1909.
Biographical Sketches of Members. History and Catalogue of
the Litchfield Law School. Historical Notes.
Litchfield: Published by the Author, 1909
xiv, 344, [3], viii pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001038974. ISBN 1-58477-213-1. Cloth. $95.

248. Lansing, John, Jr.
The Delegate from New York or Proceedings of the Federal Convention
of 1787 from the Notes of John Lansing, Jr.
Edited by Joseph Reese Strayer.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939
x, 125 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001050456. ISBN 1-58477-218-2. Cloth. $75.

249. [Lieber, Francis]. Freidel, Frank
Francis Lieber: Nineteenth-Century Liberal.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, [1947]
xiii, 445 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-350-2
Cloth. $95.
* “There have been earlier studies of the career of Francis Lieber, but this book will rank as the definitive biography. The author has not only exhausted the archival material and the voluminous correspondence between this extraordinary German émigré scholar and the hundreds of men whom he knew during his sojourn in America from 1827 to 1872, but he used them to produce a very readable account of Lieber’s career and political and social philosophy.” Carl Wittke, Indiana Law Review 34:732-734 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1105.

250. Lieber, Francis
Manual of Political Ethics, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and Students at Law . Second Edition, Revised. Edited by Theodore D. Woolsey.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1890
Two volumes. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002044392. ISBN 1-58477-345-6
Cloth $160.
* Reprint of second edition. First published in 1838 and 1839, Lieber's Manual of Political Ethics, a comprehensive theory of the state, is one of his most significant and influential works. It was one of the first treatises on political science, and the first written in the United States. Strongly influenced by German Idealism, it argues that the state is the ultimate expression of humanity's ancient quest for moral, ethical and spiritual fulfillment. As much a work of advocacy as it is of theory, it urges the reader to consider the moral obligations that arise from his participation in government and other civil institutions. Theodore D. Woolsey [1801-1889], a professor at Yale (and later its president), was one of the founding fathers of America political science. Lieber's influence as an educator will make the work of interest to scholars of legal education as well as students of law and government.

250a. Lieber, Francis
Miscellaneous Writings.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1881.
Two volumes. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002025955. ISBN 1-58477-251-4. Cloth. $200.
* Volume I: Reminiscences, Addresses and Essays. Volume II: Contributions to Political Science: Including Lectures on the Constitution of the United States and Other Papers. With an introduction by Johann Caspar Bluntschli [1808-1881], the noted Swiss scholar of constitutional and international law, and a chronological list of Leiber's writings.

Francis Lieber [1798-1872] was a prominent political philosopher and political scientist who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his theory of civil liberty which combined an appreciation for the English concept of decentralized self-governing local political institutions which protected the rights of the individual with the German idea of an overall national purpose, he bridged the intellectual gap between Europe and America. A Prussian scholar and political activist who was imprisoned twice in Germany for his liberalism, in 1827 he was one of the first university-trained scholars to emigrate to the United States. A scholar of wide interests beyond law and politics, he developed an encyclopedia that was the foundation of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He became professor of history and political economy at South Carolina College, and was later appointed to the same chair at Columbia College. In 1865 he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was renowned for his contributions. Dictionary of American Biography VI: 236-237.

See items 159 and 160 in section Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law and item 273 in section Legal Education for more works by Francis Lieber.

 

251. [Lincoln, Abraham]. Zane, John Maxcy
Lincoln The Constitutional Lawyer.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1932
92 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002024325. ISBN 1-58477-257-3
Cloth. $80.
* Zane explores the sources of Lincoln’s interpretation of the Constitution, with an emphasis on slavery and civil liberties during times of national emergency. Two introductory chapters offer an appreciation of Lincoln’s prose style and courtroom technique. John Maxcy Zane [1863-1937] was a Chicago attorney and the author of The Story of Law (1927). This edition reprints a volume that was issued in a limited edition of 300 copies by Chicago’s Caxton Club in 1932.

252. [Lincoln, Abraham]. Oldroyd, Osborn H.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The Flight, Pursuit, Capture and Punishment of the Conspirators.
Washington, D.C.: O.H. Oldroyd, 1901
xviii, 305pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-125-9. Cloth. $75.

253. [Lincoln, Abraham]. Richards, John T.
Abraham Lincoln The Lawyer-Statesman.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916
Frontis. Illustrated. xii, 260 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-20587. ISBN 1-886363-94-3. Cloth. $65.

254. [Lincoln, Abraham]. Townsend, William H.
Lincoln the Litigant.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925
[ix], [117] pp. Frontis. Illus. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-16499. ISBN 1-58477-021-X. Cloth. $60.

255. [Lincoln, Abraham]. Whitney, Henry C.
Life on the Circuit with Lincoln.
With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other Contemporaries.
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1892
viii, 601 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-115-1. Cloth. $110.

256. [MacDonell, Sir John and Edward Manson]
Great Jurists of the World.
Edited by Sir John MacDonell and Edward Manson.
With an Introduction by Van Vechten Veeder.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1914
xxxii, 607 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 1997
LCCN 97-8298. ISBN 1-886363-28-5. Cloth. $125.

257. [Madison, James]
Journal of the Constitutional Convention Kept by James Madison.
Special Edition. Edited by E.H. Scott
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1898
805 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002024327. ISBN 1-58477-256-5.
Cloth. $110.
* Founding father (and later fourth President of the United States) James Madison [1751-1836] appreciated the significance of the Constitutional Convention and took great care to compile an accurate report of its proceedings. The journal he compiled between May 14 and September 17, 1787, often referred to as “The Madison Papers” or “Madison’s Notes” remains the most complete record of the proceedings, which were held behind closed doors. This volume is based on the edition of 1840, which was published by the United States government from Madison’s original manuscripts under the direction of President Andrew Jackson who authorized payment of the sum of “thirty thousand dollars” (Preface, 4) to Mrs. Madison, which later passed as an Act of Congress for the reduced sum of “five thousand dollars,” (Preface, 5) still an exorbitant amount reflecting their comprehension of the historical significance of the notes to the nation. The volume also includes the text of another manuscript that traces the history of American constitutionalism from 1754 to 1787. This edition with E.H. Scott’s complete “general and analytical” index.

258. [Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison and John Jay]
The Federalist.
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
New-York: J. and A. M’Lean, 1788
Two volumes. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001037703. ISBN 1-58477-204-2. Cloth. $295.

259. [Madison, James]. Scott, James Brown
James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1918
xviii, 149pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-164-X. Cloth. $65.

260. [Madison, James]. Hunt, Gaillard and James Brown Scott
The Debates in The Federal Convention of 1787 Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1920
xcvii, [1], 731 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-51911. ISBN 1-886363-77-3. Cloth. $110.

261. [Maitland, Frederick William]. Cameron, James R.
Frederick William Maitland and the History of English Law.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]
xvi, 214 pp. Portrait frontis. Illustrations. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-067585. ISBN 1-58477-135-6. Cloth. $85.

262. [Miller, Samuel Freeman]. Fairman, Charles
Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939
[x], 456 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002025961. ISBN 1-58477-267-0.
Cloth. $120.
* Samuel Freeman Miller [1816-1890] was appointed to the court by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. An active emancipationist, he was an influential force during the unsettled years of the Civil War and Reconstruction who did much to shape the court’s interpretation of the Civil War Amendments, and the fourteenth amendment in particular as the author of the majority opinion in the Slaughter-House Cases. Miller was considered as a prospective presidential candidate by republican leaders in the 1880s. He served on the Court until his death. “Mr. Fairman has written the best biography of an American judge since Beveridge’s Life of John Marshall.” Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., Harvard Law Review 53: 696-698 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1114.

263. [Nichols, J.].
A Collection of all the Wills, Now Known to Be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and every Branch of the Blood Royal, from the Reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the Seventh Exclusive: With Explanatory Notes and a Glossary.
London: J. Nichols, 1780
x, 434 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-17114. ISBN 1-886363-87-0. Cloth. $75.

264. [Ricardo, David]. McCulloch, J.R.
The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P. with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author.
London: John Murray, 1846
xxxiii, 584 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-39612. ISBN 1-58477-028-7. Cloth. $90.

265. [Story, Joseph]. Story, William
Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, edited by his son, William W. Story.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851
Two volumes. xii, 574; viii, 676 pp. Frontispiece. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 99-058777. ISBN 1-58477-071-6. Cloth. $195.

266. [Story, Joseph]. Story, William W., ed.
The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, edited by his son, William W. Story.
Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown , 1852
x, 828 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 99-058559. ISBN 1-58477-072-4. Cloth. $125.

267. Woolrych, Humphry William
Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law of the English Bar.
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1869. Two volumes. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001050455. ISBN 1-58477-217-4. Cloth. $195.

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