Chapter 1: Law’s roots
‘One writer adds flesh … ’: Joseph Raz, ‘The Rule of Law and its Virtue’, Law Quarterly Review 93 (1977), 195.
‘[B]asic institutions, concepts, and values … ’: Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 165.
‘[L]ife might be much simpler … ’: A. W. B. Simpson, ‘The Common Law and Legal Theory’, in William Twining (ed.), Legal Theory and Common Law (Basil Blackwell, 1986), pp. 15–16.
‘[The Talmud] represents a brilliant … ’: H. Patrick Glenn, On Common Laws (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 131.
‘Islamic law … seeks constancy … ’: Lawrence Rosen, The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society (Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 287.
‘Hindu law recognizes … ’: H. Patrick Glenn, Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law, 4th edition (Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 303.
‘Like a jewel in a brooch … ’: H. R. Hahlo and Ellison Kahn, The South African Legal System and Its Background (Juta, 1968), p. 218.
‘I would venture to suggest … ’: Albert H. Y. Chen, ‘Confucian Legal Culture and its Modern Fate’, in Raymond Wacks (ed.), The New Legal Order in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 1999), pp. 532–3.
‘I often wonder … ’: Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand, collected, and with an introduction and notes, by Irving Dilliard (Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), p. 190.
‘The law as I see it … ’: Alfred Denning, ‘The Need for a New Equity’, Current Legal Problems 1 (1952), 9.
‘consists of two parts … ’: H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law, 2nd edition, ed. P. A. Bulloch and J. Raz (Clarendon Press, 1994), p. 156.
‘Nature has placed mankind … ’: Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ed. J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (Athlone Press, 1970) (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, ed. J. H. Burns), chapter 1, para. 1.
‘Each and every pupil told me … ’: Rupert Cross, Statutory Interpretation (Butterworth, 1976), preface.
Bentham on ‘dog law’ and ‘the more antique … ’: quoted in Gerald J. Postema, Bentham and the Common Law Tradition (Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 278–9.
‘The life of the law … ’: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law (Dover Press, 1991), p. 1.
Chapter 2: Law’s branches
‘[He is] devoid of any human weakness … ’: A. P. Herbert, Uncommon Law (Methuen, 1969), p. 4.
‘This is the Court of Chancery … ’: Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 1.
Chapter 3: Law and morality
H. L. A. Hart, ‘Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals’, Harvard Law Review 71 (1958), 593.
Lon L. Fuller, ‘Positivism and Fidelity to Law: A Reply to Professor Hart’, Harvard Law Review 71 (1958), 530.
‘Unless a deliberate attempt … ’: Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, Chairman Sir John Wolfenden (Cmnd 247), para. 61.
‘[T]he sole end for which … ’: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb (Penguin Books, 1974), pp. 72–3.
‘There is disintegration … ’: Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 14.
‘The war … ’: Ronald Dworkin, Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion and Euthanasia (HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 4 and 103.
‘Killing people outside war … ’: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 10.
United Kingdom, Abortion Act 1967, and Section 37 of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act 1990.
‘[W]e should stand for a threshold absolutism … ’: Gregory Fried, (2014) ‘Review of Uwe Steinhoff, On the Ethics of Torture’, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2013.
‘True law is right … ’: Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Republic/On the Laws, Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press, 1928), book 3, para. 22.
Chapter 4: Courts
‘courts are the capitals … ’: Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Belknap Press, 1986), p. 407.
‘[T]he public entertain … ’: Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law (Penguin, 2010), p. 9.
‘It is an awesome thing … ’: Edmond N. Cahn, The Sense of Injustice (Oxford University Press, 1949), p. 133.
‘A judge must decide not just … ’: Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Belknap Press, 1986), p. 1.
H. L. A Hart, The Concept of Law, 3rd edition, with introduction and notes by L. Green, and postscript ed. J. Raz and P. A. Bulloch (Clarendon Press, 2012).
Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Duckworth, 1978), p. 37.
‘Trial by jury is more than an instrument of justice … ’: Patrick Devlin, Trial by Jury (Stevens & Sons, 1956), p. 41.
‘[M]ediation has (on our best days) … ’: David A. Hoffman, ‘The Future of ADR Practice: Three Hopes, Three Fears, and Three Predictions’ Negotiation Journal 467 (2006), p. 472.
Chapter 5: Lawyers
‘The lawyers have twisted it … ’: Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 8.
‘The common law folk concept … ’: Richard L. Abel and Philip S. C. Lewis, ‘Lawyers in the Civil Law World’, in Richard L. Abel and Philip S. C. Lewis (eds), Lawyers in Society: The Civil Law World (Beard Books, 2005), p. 4.
Chapter 6: The future of the law
‘Existing rules and principles … ’: Benjamin Cardozo, The Growth of the Law (Yale University Press, 1921), pp. 19–20.
‘We need not sacrifice our constitutional freedoms … ’: Philip Bobbitt, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century (Alfred Knopf, 2008), p. 541.
‘The day may come … ’: Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ed. J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (Athlone Press, 1970) (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, ed. J. H. Burns), pp. 25–6.
Lawrence Lessig, Code: Version 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006), p. 7.
‘there is no place for Industry … ’: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. M. Oakeshott (Blackwell, 1960), chapter 13.