The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: An Overview

Traces the idea of equality from Aristotle and the Stoics to its place in modern human rights law, and maps the different models of equality that legal systems use.

Jarlath Clifford

Dworkin's honorary degree lecture on why international law binds states and how a moral reading can strengthen it. A brief, accessible text from a central figure of modern jurisprudence.

Ronald Dworkin

Stephen's classic reply to Mill's On Liberty defends the use of law to enforce morality and questions the ideals of the French Revolution. The starting point of the Hart and Devlin debate.

James Fitzjames Stephen

Pound's lectures on how the historical, analytical and philosophical schools understood the relation between law and morals, and why the question matters for judges.

Roscoe Pound

Argues that legal education should engage students' deepest beliefs and that legal philosophy is the place to do it, with proposals for teaching from a Christian perspective.

S. de Freitas