The concept of law

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century. It is a classic book in the field of legal scholarship and remains the starting point for most students coming to the su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:Third edition.
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.