This text brings together contributions from 18 of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers to examine the lasting influence of H.L.A. Hart. The essays explore the major subjects of Hart's work: general jurisprudence, criminal responsibility rights, justice, causati…
"This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century." "The book brings together contribut…
Reading HLA Hart's The concept of law
'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, thirteen leading scholars look afresh at Hart's great book.
La 4e de couv. indique : "In the 1950s and 60s, H.L.A. Hart's writings were responsible for the revitalizing of legal philosophy in the UK and worldwide. This new collection of essays by distinguished philosophers and legal theorists addresses the enduring significance of Hart's…
"In the 1950s and 60s, H.L.A. Hart's writings were responsible for the revitalizing of legal philosophy in the UK and worldwide. This new collection of essays by distinguished philosophers and legal theorists addresses the enduring significance of Hart's work, focusing upon some…
"In the 1950s and 60s, H.L.A. Hart's writings were responsible for the revitalizing of legal philosophy in the UK and worldwide. This new collection of essays by distinguished philosophers and legal theorists addresses the enduring significance of Hart's work, focusing upon some…
In this substantially revised second edition, Neil MacCormick delivers an introduction to the life and works of H.L.A. Hart, noted Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1952 to 1968. The work includes Hart's ideas on the theory of legal rules, legal reasoning, jud…
"Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart ... later became the most famous legal philosopher of the twentieth century."--Jacket.
