The concept of law / by H.L.A. Hart ; with a postscript edited by Penelope A. Bulloch and Joseph Raz and with an introduction and notes by Leslie Green.
2012
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Title
The concept of law / by H.L.A. Hart ; with a postscript edited by Penelope A. Bulloch and Joseph Raz and with an introduction and notes by Leslie Green.
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Call Number
K237 .H37 2012
Edition
Third edition.
ISBN
9780199644698 (hbk.)
0199644691 (hbk.)
9780199644704 (pbk.)
0199644705 (pbk.)
0199644691 (hbk.)
9780199644704 (pbk.)
0199644705 (pbk.)
Description
lv, 333 pages ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)766300185
Note
Previous edition: 1994.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-325) and index.
Series
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Added Author
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction / Leslie Green
xv
1.
Hart's Message
xv
2.
Law as a Social Construction
xvii
3.
Law and Power
xvii
4.
Law and Morality
xxxiii
5.
Fact, Value, and Method
xliv
6.
The Point
lii
I.
Presistent Questions
1
1.
Perplexities of Legal Theory
1
2.
Three Recurrent Issues
6
3.
Definition
13
II.
Laws, Commands, And Orders
18
1.
Varieties of Imperatives
18
2.
Law as Coercive Orders
20
III.
The Variety Of Laws
26
1.
The Content of Laws
27
2.
The Range of Application
42
3.
Modes of Origin
44
IV.
Sovereign And Subject
50
1.
The Habit of Obedience and the Continuity of Law
51
2.
The Persistence of Law
61
3.
Legal Limitations on Legislative Power
66
4.
The Sovereign Behind the Legislature
71
V.
Law As The Union Of Primary And Secondary Rules
79
1.
A Fresh Start
79
2.
The Idea of Obligation
82
3.
The Elements of Law
91
VI.
The Foundations Of A Legal System
100
1.
Rule of Recognition and Legal Validity
100
2.
New Questions
105
3.
The Pathology of a Legal System
117
VII.
Formalism And Rule-Scepticism
124
1.
The Open Texture of Law
124
2.
Varieties of Rule-Scepticism
136
3.
Finality and Infallibility in judicial Decision
141
4.
Uncertainty in the Rule of Recognition
147
VIII.
Justice And Morality
155
1.
Principles of Justice
157
2.
Moral and Legal Obligation
167
3.
Moral Ideals and Social Criticism
180
IX.
Laws And Morals
185
1.
Natural Law and Legal Positivism
185
2.
The Minimum Content of Natural Law
193
3.
Legal Validity and Moral Value
200
X.
International Law
213
1.
Sources of Doubt
213
2.
Obligations and Sanctions
216
3.
Obligation and the Sovereignty of States
220
4.
International Law and Morality
227
5.
Analogies of Form and Content
232
POSTSCRIPT
238
Introductory
238
1.
The Nature of Legal Theory
239
2.
The Nature of Legal Positivism
244
3.
The Nature of Rules
254
4.
Principles and the Rule of Recognition
263
5.
Law and Morality
268
6.
Judicial Discretion
272
Notes
277
Notes to the Third Edition
309
Index
327