University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law

Jurisprudence (LL.M.)

Reading List

Reading will be prescribed for each class, but the more important texts to be studied (in whole or in part) will be:

Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica, Treatise on law: I-II qq90-108; Treatise on justice: II-II qq57-62
Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Dworkin, Law’s Empire
Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights
Hart, The Concept of Law
Hart, Law, Liberty and Morality
Hobbes, Leviathan
Rawls, A Theory of Justice