Abstract
This chapter provides a brief overview of the life and work of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626), with particular attention to his Exemplum Tractatus de justitia universalis, sive de fontibus iuris in uno titulo per aphorismos, published in 1623.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2016
Recommended Citation
William Hamilton Bryson, Bacon, Example of a Treatise Touching Universal Justice, in The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing 170-172 (Serge Dauchy, et al., eds., Springer International Publishing 2016).