Locating Equality: From Historical Philosophical Thought to Modern Legal Norms

A clear overview of the main theories of human rights, from natural rights to political accounts, and the questions they raise for law and morality. Written as the introduction to a major collected volume.

Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao and Massimo Renzo

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