§Law

Distinguishes just from unjust law and defends civil disobedience as a way of respecting law rather than rejecting it.

Follows one handwritten prison petition to the Supreme Court, and shows exactly how a constitutional right gets made.

Traces 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' to two lawyers from the same town, who disagreed about whether the group or the individual is the victim.

Copyright expanded from a narrow commercial regulation into general control over derivative use, and the cost lands on the culture that follows.

Code is law: architecture regulates behaviour online more effectively than statute, and it is written by people nobody elected.

Legal reasoning is genuinely distinctive: rules, precedent and authority constrain conclusions even when they are the wrong conclusions.

Predicts what courts will do in fact; strips morality out of legal analysis and founds American legal realism.

Argues the poor hold assets they cannot convert into capital because title is informal — hugely influential and heavily contested empirically.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience — doctrine is the residue of history, not a deduction from principle.

Law is a union of primary and secondary rules, which explains legal systems better than commands backed by threats.

Treats tort law as a system for minimising the total cost of accidents and of avoiding them — the founding text of law and economics.

Argues classical contract doctrine was a nineteenth-century construction already dissolving back into tort and reliance.

Courts should police the democratic process rather than impose substantive values — the most influential answer to what judicial review is for.

Matches regulatory tools to the specific market failure they address, and shows how often the mismatch is the whole problem.

Every jurisdiction's company law solves the same three agency problems; the differences are in the instruments, not the goals.