Books in the The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham series

In the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9). He provides important refelctions on the nature of law, and more particularly on the nature of customary and statute law, and on judicial interpretation.

A collection of letters which represent Bentham's attempt to influence the direction of political and constitutional change taking place in Spain and Portugal in the early 1820s.

The material in this volume constitutes a philosophical commonplace book, compiled by Bentham in the mid-1770s, in which he worked out the foundational ideas for his new science of legislation. This provides a remarkable record of the evolving ideas of a major legal philosopher at a formative stage of his career.

A new volume of the writings of Jeremy Bentham, including notes on his discussions of political economy and public finance, his reaction to the taxation of legal proceedings, and the denial of justice to the poor.

Jeremy Bentham identifies and criticizes around fifty fallacious arguments used by politicians to thwart measures of reform, and exposes the sinister interests that lead to their employment. This edition restores Bentham's original structure and previously-omitted sections, and remains as relevant to political debate today as it was in his time.

Bentham presents the utilitarian case for sexual liberty on the grounds that the gratification of the sexual appetite constituted the purest form of pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, was at the height of his fame and influence in the 1820s. This volume presents 301 letters which contain correspondence with leaders such as Simon Bolivar and Bernardino Rivadavia, British statesmen such as Robert Peel and Henry Brougham, and intellectuals such as John Stuart Mill and Sarah Austin.

Drawing on his knowledge of English political and constitutional practice, and the theoretical resources he had developed in his own work, the author suggested innovative measures to achieve the peaceful and constitutional reform in France. His writings for the French Revolution were dominated by the themes of rights, representation, and reform.

Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined was part of Bentham's sustained attack on English political, legal, and ecclesiastical establishments. This authoritative version is accompanied by an editorial introduction, comprehensive annotation, collations of several extracts published during Bentham's lifetime, and subject and name indexes.

One of the earliest and best-known of Bentham's works, the Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation sets out a profound and innovative philosophical argument. This definitive edition includes both the late H. L. A. Hart's classic essay on the work and a new introduction by F. Rosen.

Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence is part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the late 1770s and early 1780s. An editorial introduction explains the provenance of the work, which is fully annotated with textual and historical notes.

The majority of the letters in this volume have not been previously published and illustrate many aspects of Bentham's public and private life. His writings are discussed, while the correspondence with his secretary, John Herbert Koe, gives an insight into Bentham's working methods.

Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is concerned with his persistent but eventually unsuccessful efforts to secure the implementation of his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters also throw light on his work in other fields, especially public finance and the reform of the police.

This volume contains the papers prepared by Bentham to illustrate his ideal of constitutional law, summed up in the aphorism of the title, and to contrast it with practice under the British constitution, which he believed to be based on entirely the opposite principle.

"Political Tactics", composed for the Estates General in the months just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution, is one of Bentham's most original works. It contains the earliest and perhaps most important theoretical analysis of parliamentary procedure ever written.

Bentham's central concern during the 1810s and 1820s was with the codification of the law. The materials presented in this volume constitute not only the basis for a biography of Bentham during these years, but also an important and illuminating account of his mature legal and political theory.

An examination of the progress of Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary scheme; his relations with Etienne Dumont and James Mill and his correspondence with the legal and political reformers of the day.

One of the most important studies of colonialism written in the nineteenth century, Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitutional democracy. The four pioneering essays collected in this volume were written by Bentham in the early 1820s; three have never been published before.

This eleventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence contains nearly three hundred letters, and covers the period from January 1822 to June 1824. By the early 1820s Bentham had acquired an international reputation, and corresponded with leading figures in Europe, the United States of America, and many of the newly independent states of Central and South America.

These letters illustrate the composition, editing, publication, and reception of several of his works. The volume reveals Bentham's attempts to influence developments in France, the USA, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and South America.

This 7th volume of Bentham's correspondence, containing many letters never before published, includes exchanges with Sir Samuel Romilly and Francis Horner and shows aspects of his professional and personal life.

These essays, dating mainly from 1822 and 1823, propose models of legislation for two Mediterranean states. In the famous "Securities Against Misrule" Bentham draws up a constitutional charter for Tripoli. The writings for Greece include a commentary on the first Greek constitution of 1822.

Four essays by Jeremy Bentham, dating from 1822, based exclusively on manuscripts, many of which have never been previously published. Bentham develops the general principles of constitutional law and government which underpin the administrative provisions set out in "Constitutional Code".