Part One - The Historical Development I. Introduction II. Law as the Will of God The Heritage of the Old Testament III. Law as Participation in the Idea of Justice Plato and Aristotle IV. Law as the Expression of the Laws of Human Nature The Stoics and Roman Natural Law V. Law as Order and Peace of the Community of Love St. Augustine VI. Law as the Mirror and Part of the Divine World Order Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics VII.

Law as a Historical Fact The Humanists VIII. Statutory Law against Natural Law The Doctrine of Sovereignty in Bodin, Althusius, and Grotius IX. The English Constitutional Tradition Sir Thomas Smith and Richard Hooker X. Common Law against Natural Law James I, Edward Coke, and Francis Bacon XI. Law as Command Hobbes and the Utilitarians XII. Law as the Basic Law of the Constitution Locke and Montesquieu XIII. Law as the Expression of "Pure Reason" From Spinoza to Wolff XIV. Law as the Expression of the General Will Rousseau and Kant XV.

Law as the Expression of the Spirit Hegel and the Historical School XVI. Law as Class Ideology Marx and Engels XVII. Philosophical Liberalism Ihering and Stammler XVIII. The Decline of Legal Philosophy Relativists, Formalists, and Skeptics XIX. The Revival of Natural Law in Europe and America Part Two - Systematic Analysis XX. Justice, Equality, and the Common Man XXI. Law, Authority, and Legitimacy XXII. Law and Order The Problem of the Breach of Law XXIII.

Constitutional Law as the Basis of the Legal System XXIV. Peace and the World Community of Law Appendixes I. Law and History From Vanderbilt Law Review , October, 1961 II. Remarks on Llewellyn's View of Law, Official Behavior, and Political Behavior From Political Science Quarterly , September, 1935 Bibliography Indexes Author Index Subject Index.