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by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is generally considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court. In more than 2,000 opinions, Holmes delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. In The Common Law, the ideas and judicial theory of Holmes can be studied and appreciated.
Commentaries on the laws of England
Sir William Blackstone
Reports
Sir Edward Coke
Village-communities in the East and West; six lectures delivered at Oxford to which are added other lectures, addresses and essays, by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Henry James Sumner Maine
The English legal system
Gary Slapper
An analysis of the laws of England
Sir William Blackstone
The history of English law before the time of Edward I
Sir Frederick Pollock
Commentaries on the common law
Herbert Broom
Black's Law Dictionary
Bryan A. Garner
A selection of leading cases in the common law
Walter Shirley Shirley