Title: The law : the story of lawmakers, and the law we have lived by, from the earliest times to the present day/
Authors: Wormser, René Albert, 1896-
Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
Year: 1949
Subjects: Law History; Law Popular works
Contents: Pt. 1. The Jews. Moses ; Jesus -- Pt. 2. The Greeks. Homer ; Solon ; Lycurgus ; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle -- Pt. 3. The Romans. The ten men ; Appius Claudius Caecus and the Gracchi ; Cicero ; Augustus ; Hadrian and Julian ; The big five and the Roman law ; Justinian -- Pt. 4. The German Barbarians and the Feudal System. The German law speakers ; Charlemagne -- Pt. 5. The Churchmen. St. Augustine ; Canon law and Aquinas -- Pt. 6. The Western Europeans. Bartolus ; Luther and Calvin ; Alciati and Cujas ; Five reformers ; Napoleon ; Marx and Engels -- Pt. 7. The English. William the Conqueror ; The law of the land emerges ; Edward I ; Elizabethan rivals : Coke and Bacon ; Hobbes and Locke ; After the Industrial Revolution -- Pt. 8. The Americans. The early colonials ; The firebrands ; Hamilton and Madison ; John Marshall ; Thomas Jefferson ; Andrew Jackson ; James Kent and state law ; Abraham Lincoln ; The liberals of the age of laissez faire ; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Roscoe Pound and legal philosophy -- Pt. 9. The internationals. The merchants ; Gentilis and Grotius ; The building period ; The first "big three" ; Hitler and the second "big three" -- The future.