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Notable philosophers of law

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Thomas Aquinas
• Francis Bacon
• John Locke
• Francisco Suarez
• Francisco de Vitoria
• Hugo Grotius
• John Austin (legal philosophy)
• Frederic Bastiat
• Evgeny Pashukanis
• Jeremy Bentham
• Emilio Betti
• Norberto Bobbio
• António Castanheira Neves
• Jules Coleman
• Ronald Dworkin
• Francesco D'Agostino
• Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola
• Carlos Cossio
• Miguel Reale
• John Finnis
• Lon L. Fuller
• Leslie Green
• Robert P. George
• Germain Grisez
• H. L. A. Hart
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• Alf Ross
• Tony Honoré
• Rudolf Jhering
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• Hans Kelsen
• Joel Feinberg
• David Lyons
• Robert Alexy
• Reinhold Zippelius
• Neil MacCormick
• William E. May
• Martha Nussbaum
• Gustav Radbruch
• Joseph Raz
• Jeremy Waldron
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny
• Robert Summers
• Roberto Unger
• Catharine MacKinnon
• John Rawls
• Pierre Schlag
• Robin West
• Carl Schmitt
• Jürgen Habermas
• Carlos Santiago Nino
• Geoffrey Warnock
• Scott J. Shapiro
• Shen Buhai
• Shang Yang
• Han Fei
• Zhu Xi
• F. A. Hayek

Further reading

• Plato, Minos (many editions).
• Plato, Laws (many editions).
• Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (many editions).
• Hadley Arkes, First Things (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986).
• Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977).
• Ronald Dworkin, A Matter of Principle (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986).
• Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986).
• Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997).
• Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965).
• John Chipman Gray, The Nature and Sources of Law (Peter Smith, 1972, reprint).
• H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961).
• H. L. A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968).
• Sterling Harwood, Judicial Activism: A Restrained Defense (London: Austin & Winfield Publishers, 1996).
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Right (Oxford University Press 1967)
• Ian Farrell & Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen, Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions, New York: Automatic Press, April 2007
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law (Dover, 1991, reprint).
• Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (Doctrine of Right) (Cambridge University Press 2000, reprint).
• Hans Kelsen, Pure Theory of Law (Lawbook Exchange Ltd., 2005, reprint).
• Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).
• Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998).
• David Lyons, Ethics & The Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
• David Lyons, Moral Aspects of Legal Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
• Neil MacCormick, Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
• Joseph Raz, The Authority of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983, reprint).
• Robert S. Summers, Instrumentalism and American Legal Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982).
• Robert S. Summers, Lon Fuller (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984).
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Critical Legal Studies Movement (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986).
• Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jules L. Coleman, The Philosophy of Law: An Introduction to Jurisprudence (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989).
• F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1960).
• F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2021; single-volune edition)