Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory presents sympathetically critical studies of major thinkers who have significantly influenced the development and practical application of legal theory. The series includes studies of philosophers and sociologists, such as Bentham, Weber, and Durkheim, who have concerned themselves substantially with the law, as well as judges such as Sir Edward Coke and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and jurisprudence specialists such as H. L. A. Hart.