Important Jurists & Books

• The Concept of Law — H.L.A. Hart (1961)
• Spirit of Law — Montesquieu (also attributed as a famous work associated with Jeremy Bentham in some notes)
• Province of Jurisprudence Determined — John Austin
• 'Jurisprudence or Theory of the Law' — written by Salmond, awarded the Swiney Gold Cup in 1914 by the Royal Society of Arts.
• Summa Theologica — St. Thomas Aquinas.
• Commentaries on the Laws of England — William Blackstone (1765–1770).
• Natural Law and Natural Rights — John Finnis (1980).
• Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil — Thomas Hobbes (1651).
• Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction — Raymond Wacks.
• The Authority of Law — Joseph Raz.

Other notable facts:

• Cicero was a Roman jurist.
• Aristotle was a Greek philosopher.
• Sir Edward Coke was among the first English jurists to popularize the formalistic approach to law in Anglo-American history.
• Roscoe Pound presented the thesis that jurisprudence is a form of social engineering.