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)

约翰·亨利·梅利曼，美国著名比较法学家，美国斯坦福大学斯韦策荣休讲座教授及艺术系荣休教授。纽约大学法律科学博士及法学硕士，圣母大学法律博士。1953年起任教于斯坦福大学法学院，1960年起任教授，1971年起任讲座教授。1980年起兼任斯坦大学艺术系教授。主要研究领域为比较法学及艺术与法律。

Professor W.A.J. 'Alan' Watson (b. 1933) is a Scottish law and legal history expert, and is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion. He is credited for coining the term "legal transplants". Watson began his academic career at Oxford University, before taking the Douglas Chair in Civil Law at the Scho...(展开全部)

汉斯-贝恩德·舍费尔教授现在为德国汉堡Bucerius法学院法经济学教授。汉斯-贝恩德·舍费尔教授早年在科隆大学学习国民经济和经济管理，并在波鸿大学担任过助教。此后被聘任德国汉堡大学法律系教授以及担任汉堡大学法律与经济学研究所博士项目主任。在2000年他被聘为美国乔治·梅森大学法学院（George Mason School of Law）访问教授。 从2004年至2007年他担任欧洲法律与经济学协会主席。汉斯-贝恩德·舍费尔教授出版了大量的有关法经济学方面的著作和论文。在他的带领下，德国汉堡大学法律系在经济学研究方面成绩斐然。

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 The author draws on the full range of Bentham's published and unpublished writings, and explores the philosophical fo...(展开全部)

“美国法律文库”是“中美元首法治计划”（Presidential Rule of law Initiative）项目之一，该项目计划翻译百余种图书，全面介绍美国高水平的法学著作，是迄今中国最大的法律图书引进项目。“美国法律文库”著作将陆续推出，以飨读者。

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 The author draws on the full range of Bentham's published and unpublished writings, and explores the philosophical fo...(展开全部)

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。

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)