Research Catalog

Title

The concept of law.

Author

Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1961.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rawls, John, 1921-2002

Description

viii, 263 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Clarendon law series

Uniform Title

Clarendon law series

Subject

• Jurisprudence
• Law > Philosophy
• Jurisprudence > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Persistent questions -- Perplexities of legal theory -- Three recurrent issues -- Definition -- Laws, commands, and orders -- Varieties of imperatives -- Law as coercive orders -- The variety of laws -- The content of the laws -- The range of application -- Modes of origin -- Sovereign and subject -- The habit of obedience and the continuity of law -- The persistence of law -- Legal limitations on legislative power -- The sovereign behind the legislature -- Law as the union of primary and secondary rules -- A fresh start -- The idea of obligation -- The elements of law -- The foundations of a legal system -- Rule of recognition and legal validity -- New questions -- The pathology of a legal system -- Formalism and rule-scepticism -- The open texture of law -- Varieties of rule-scepticism -- Finality and infallibility in judicial decision -- Uncertainty in the rule of recognition -- Justice and morality -- Principles of justice -- Moral and legal obligation -- Moral ideals and social criticism -- Laws and morals -- Natural law and legal positivism -- The minimum content of natural law -- Legal validity and moral value -- International law -- Sources of doubt -- Obligations and sanctions -- Obligation and sovereignty of states -- International law and morality -- Analogies of form and content.

LCCN

^^^61019040^/L

OCLC

• 1476826
• SCSB-10036351

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library