杰拉德·波斯特玛，美国北卡罗来纳大学法学及哲学教授，当代英语世界杰出的法哲学家、政治哲学家和观念史学家。该书是他的代表作。

The debate between Bentham and classical Common Law theory is philosophically fundamental and has shaped contemporary conceptions of the nature, tasks, and limits of law and adjudication. This book offers a philosophical interpretation of this historical debate. The author draws on the full range of Bentham's published and unpublished writings, and explores the philosophical fo...(展开全部)

Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This new edition deals with recent significant events—such as the fall of the Soviet empire and the resulting precipitous decline of the socialist l...(展开全部)

Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. Gathered here for the first time are the most important of his essays which together provide both a valuable introduction to Hobbes's thought and a fresh understanding of Hobbes's place in the theory of modern politics. Tracing Hobbes's w...(展开全部)

韩阳，女，1977年生，北京第二外国语学院法政学院副教授，法学博士，中国社会科学院法学所出站博士后。

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman d...(展开全部)

约翰·戈耶特，美国天主教大学哲学博士，美国加利福尼亚州圣保拉托马斯·阿奎那学院导师。主要研究领域涉及亚里士多德主义、托马斯主义及自然法理论。 马克·拉特科维奇，美国华盛顿特区让保禄二世婚姻家庭研究院神学博士，美国密歇根州底特律圣心大神学院道德神学和系统神学教授。主要研究领域为道德神学。 理查德·迈尔斯，美国圣母大学法学博士，美国万福玛利亚法学院法学教授。主要研究领域涉及宪法、反信托法、民事程序法等。 杨天江，北京大学法律史博士，西南政法大学法理学教师。主要研究领域为法理学和西方法律思想史，特别致力托马斯主义自然法理论研究。