The concept of law

"H. L. A. Hart's The Concept of Law is without question the most important work of legal philosophy written this century; no other study has made such an important contribution to the study of jurisprudence and legal philosophy. Since it was first published in 1961 its elegant language and...

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Main Author: Hart, H. L. A
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford New York Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press 1994
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Clarendon law series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Persistent questions
  • Laws, commands, and orders
  • The variety of laws
  • Sovereign and subject
  • Law as the union of primary and secondary rules
  • The foundations of a legal system
  • Formalism and rule-scepticism
  • Justice and morality
  • Laws and morals
  • International law.