Starting a bibliography

Rob has raised a number of interesting and good issues about a bibliography for CLT and an LL.M. in CLT.

Here are some works that I would like to suggest as starters:

Saint Augustine, The Confessions

Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law

Ehler & Morall, Church and State through the Centuries: A Collection of Historical Documents with Commentaries

Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est

John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, Fides et Ratio

Leo XIII, Libertas, Immortale Dei, In Plurimus, Rerum Novarum (and many other encyclicals)

Benedict XV, Pacem Dei Munus, Des le Debut (apostolic exhortation)

Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno, Mit Brennender Sorge, Non Abbiamo Bisongno

Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus

John XXIII, Mater et Magistra, Pacem in Terris

Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, Humanae Vitae, Octogesima Adveniens (apostolic letter)

A Code of International Ethics

John Eppstein, The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations (a critical anthology)

James Brown Scott, The Spanish Origin of International Law

Gerald Benkert, The Thomistic Conception of International Society

Sylvester John Hemleben, Plans for World Peace through Six Centuries

Francis Suarez, De Legibus ac de Deo Legislatore (James Brown Scott, editor, in Classics of International Law, Oxford U. Press)

Johannes Messner, Social Ethics: Natural Law in the Modern World

Harry Koenig, Principles for Peace: Selections from Papal Documents Leo XIII to Pius XII

Calvez & Perrin, The Church and Social Justice: The Social Teachings of the Church from Leo XIII to Pius XII

Heinrich Rommen, The State in Catholic Thought

Heinrich Rommen, Natural Law

John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights

Christopher Dawson, many books and essays

Fr. Yves de La Briere, many writings

Luigi Taparelli d'Azeglio, Saggio Teoretico di Diritto Naturale

Avery Dulles, A Testimonial to Grace

Oswald von Nell-Breuning, Reorganization of Social Economy

Robert P. George, Making Men Moral

Russel Hittinger, The First Grace

Michael Perry, Morality, Politics and Law

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