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Reading HLA Hart's The concept of law / edited by Luís Duarte d'Almeida, James Edwards and Andrea Dolcetti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jurisprudence.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992. Concept of Law.
- Hart, H. L. A.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (531 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Hart Publishing Ltd, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 'persisten
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Contributors; 1 Hart's Readers; I. READING THE CONCEPT OF LAW; 2 The Generality of Law; 3 Variety or Uniformity?; 4 Hart on Sovereignty; 5 Why Law Might Emerge: Hart's Problematic Fable; 6 The Rule of Recognition and the Foundations of a Legal System; 7 Words and Obligations; 8 Hart on Justice and Morality; 9 The Morality in Law; 10 International Law: 'A Relatively Small and Unimportant' Part of Jurisprudence?; II. HART'S 'PERSISTENT QUESTIONS'; 11 How Persistent are Hart's 'Persistent Questions'?; 12 Hart's Anti-Essentialism; 13 The Model of Ordinary Analysis
- 14 Do the 'Persistent Questions' Persist?: Revisiting Chapter I in The Concept of LawIII. AN INTERVIEW WITH HLA HART; 15 Introductory Note; 16 Answers to Eight Questions; eCopyright
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781782252160
- 1782252169
- OCLC:
- 883566930
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