📚 Natural Law

Books with natural law on their catalogue record, first published between 1672 and 2003, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject natural law in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,467 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Natural Law	Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves	1951	33
	Pure Theory of Law	Hans Kelsen	1934	27
	De jure naturae et gentium	Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf	1672	26
	Human nature	Thomas Hobbes	1684	21
	De officio hominis et civis	Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf	1691	19
	Discours sur les sciences et les arts	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1946	16
	The reign of law	George Campbell	1800	15
	Was ist Gerechtigkeit?	Hans Kelsen	1957	13
	Metaphysik der Sitten	Immanuel Kant	1797	12
	A discourse on the study of the law of nature and nations	Mackintosh, James Sir	1799	12
	Natural rights	David George Ritchie	1894	12
	Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1755	11
	Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie	Karl Marx	1970	11
	L' ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ..	Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de La Rivière	1767	10
	Lectures on the principles of political obligation	Thomas Hill Green	1895	10
	Essays on the law of nature	John Locke	1954	10
	Principes du droit naturel	J. J. Burlamaqui	1747	9
	An essay on the natural equality of men	William Laurence Brown	1793	9
	Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu	Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy	1811	9
	Ethics and natural law	George Lansing Raymond	1920	9
	Causality and chance in modern physics	David Bohm	1957	9
	Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	1796	8
	Sketches, essays and translations	Francis Walker Gilmer	1828	8
	Gibt es ein Naturrecht?	Adolph Leinweber	1900	8
	Lectures on the principles of political obligation	Thomas Hill Green	1921	8
	Droits de l'homme et la loi naturelle	Jacques Maritain	1943	8
	Natural Right and History	Leo Strauss	1950	7
	Human law and human justice	Julius Stone	1965	7
	Natural Law and Natural Rights	John Finnis	1979	7
	The first grace	Russell Hittinger	2003	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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