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For reliable introductions to legal theory: Andrei Marmor (ed), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (or entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy like https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contract-law/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/constitutionalism/ )
Books:
1. H.L.A. Hart, 'The Concept of Law'.
2. Ronald Dworkin, 'Law's Empire' (maybe also try 'Justice for Hedgehogs').
3. Lon L. Fuller, 'The Morality of Law'.
4. John Finnis, 'Natural Law and Natural Rights'.
5. J. Lear, 'Aristotle: the Desire to Understand'.
Articles:
1. H.L.A. Hart, 'Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals'.
2. Noam Gur, 'Ronald Dworkin and the Curious Case of the Floodgates Argument'.
3. Kristen Rundle, 'The Impossibility of an Exterminatory Legality'.
*4. Eric Heinze, '*The meta-ethics of law: Book One of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics'.
5. Brian Leiter, 'Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered'.
For example, I think 'Justice' by Michael Sandel is a must read.
It's PDF is also available freely on the internet.