Reading HLA Hart's The concept of law

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Law Library — 3rd Floor Collection (3rd floor)

Call Number
K237 .R42 2013
Status
Checked Out (Due 9/16/2024)

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Summary

More than 50 years after it was first published, The Concept of Law remains the most important work of legal philosophy in the English-speaking world. In this volume, written for both students and specialists, 13 leading scholars look afresh at Hart's great book.Unique in format, the volume proceeds sequentially through all the main ideas in The Concept of Law: each contributor addresses a single chapter of Hart's book, critically discussing its arguments in light of subsequent developments in the field. Four concluding essays assess the continued relevance for jurisprudence of the 'persistent questions' identified by Hart at the beginning of The Concept of Law. The collection also includes Hart's 'Answers to Eight Questions', written in 1988 and never before published in English. Contributors include Timothy Endicott, Richard HS Tur, Pavlos Eleftheriadis, John Gardner, Grant Lamond, Nicos Stavropoulos, Leslie Green, John Tasioulas, Jeremy Waldron, John Finnis, Frederick Schauer, Pierluigi Chiassoni and Nicola Lacey.

Contents

Hart's readers / Luís Duarte d'Almeida, James Edwards and Andrea Dolcetti -- The generality of law / Timothy Endicott -- Variety or uniformity? / Richard H.S. Tur -- Hart on sovereignty / Pavlos Eleftheriadis -- Why law might emerge : Hart's problematic fable / John Gardner -- The rule of recognition and the foundations of a legal system / Grant Lamond -- Words and obligations / Nicos Stavropoulos -- Hart on justice and morality / John Tasioulas -- The morality in law / Leslie Green -- International law : 'a relatively small and unimportant' part of jurisprudence? / Jeremy Waldron -- How persistent are Hart's 'persistent questions'? / John Finnis -- Hart's anti-essentialism / Frederick Schauer -- The model of ordinary analysis / Pierluigi Chiassoni -- Do the 'persistent questions' persist? : revisiting chapter 1 in The concept of law / Nicola Lacey -- Introductory note / Juan Ramón de Páramo -- Answers to eight questions / H.L.A. Hart.

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