The most important of the 25 extant treatises in this group are Allegories of the Laws, commentary on Genesis, and On the Special Laws, an exposition of the laws in the Pentateuch.
Philo's exposition of the law may represent either an academic discussion giving an ideal description of Jewish law or the actual practice in the Jewish courts in Egypt.
His Summa Codicis was the first systematic exposition of Roman law produced in the Middle Ages.
Labeo's Libri posteriores, a systematic exposition of Roman law, is so called because it was published after his death.
His book The Rule of Law was a hugely important exposition of a phrase much overused in legal language, but little understood beyond its professional and constitutional rhetoric.
The shortcomings of the Commentaries in these respects, however, were offset by its style and intelligibility, and lawyers and laymen alike came to regard it as an authoritative exposition of the law.
However, Marx's exposition of the "law of the declining rate of profit" is invalid both practically and logically (even avid Marxists admit its logical flaws)—and with it all of Marx's other predictions collapse.
"This decision," the Cooper court said of Marbury, "declared the basic principle that the federal judiciary is supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution, and that principle has ever since been respected by this court and the country as a permanent and indispensible feature of our constitutional system".
His studies and intellectual work increased and in 1578 he published Exposition of Universal Law (Juris), a small methodic textbook in which his theory of universal rights completes his vision of universal history that he had developed earlier in the Method.
In support of this claim, he cites the Court's assertion (in dicta) in Cooper v. Aaron (1958) that "the federal judiciary is supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution" and points out that Professor Ramsey (and Professor Ilya Somin) embrace the term.
