The Concept of Law / Edition 3

The Concept of Law / Edition 3

ISBN-10:
0199644705
ISBN-13:
9780199644704
Pub. Date:
12/29/2012
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199644705
ISBN-13:
9780199644704
Pub. Date:
12/29/2012
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
The Concept of Law / Edition 3

The Concept of Law / Edition 3

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Overview

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 subject for the first time.

Known as Hart's most famous work, The Concept of Law emerged from a set of lectures that Hart began to deliver in 1952 in which he developed a sophisticated view of legal positivism. Hart revolutionized the methods of jurisprudence and the philosophy of law in the English-speaking world by bringing the tools of analytic, and especially linguistic, philosophy to bear on the central problems of legal theory.

In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in social and political philosophy, clarifying misunderstandings of Hart's project and highlighting central tensions and problems in the work. The Concept of Law remains a must-read for anyone interested in the great thinkers of the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199644704
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2012
Series: Clarendon Law Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 380
Sales rank: 598,366
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

HLA Hart was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. He authored The Concept of Law one of the seminal works of English-language jurisprudence. He passed away in 1992.

Leslie Green is Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author The Authority of the State (Clarendon Press, 1990), and is the co-editor of Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law (with Brian Leiter).

Joseph Raz has been teaching at Oxford University since 1972. He has been Professor of the Philosophy of Law there since 1985, and Research Professor since 2006; he has also been Professor at Columbia University since 2002. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published a number of books including Between Authority and Interpretation (OUP, 2009) and The Authority of Law (OUP, 2009).

Penelope A. Bulloch is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Leslie Green
1. Persistent Questions
2. Laws, Commands, and Orders
3. The Variety of Laws
4. Sovereign and Subject
5. Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules
6. The Foundations of a Legal System
7. Formalism and Rule-Scepticism
8. Justice and Morality
9. Laws and Morals
10. International Law
Postscript, Penelope A. Bulloch and Joseph Raz (editors)
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