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• Title:The concept of law / by H.L.A. Hart ; edited by Penelope A. Bulloch and Joseph Raz ; and with an introduction and notes by Leslie Green.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bulloch, Penelope A.
  Raz, Joseph.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K237 .H37 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisprudence--Methodology.
  
• Edition:3rd ed. / introduction by Leslie Green.
  
• Description:lv, 333 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:Clarendon law series.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.: 1997.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199644698 (hbk.)
  0199644691 (hbk.)
  9780199644704 (pbk.)
  0199644705 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Persistent Questions
  1. Perplexities of Legal Theory
  2. Three Recurrent Issues
  3. Definition
  II. Laws, Commands, and Orders
  1. Varieties of Imperatives
  2. Law as Coercive Orders
  III. Variety of Laws
  1. Content of Laws
  2. Range of Application
  3. Modes of Origin
  IV. Sovereign and Subject
  1. Habit of Obedience and the Continuity of Law
  2. Persistence of Law
  3. Legal Limitations on Legislative Power
  4. Sovereign Behind the Legislature
  V. Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules
  1. Fresh Start
  2. Idea of Obligation
  3. Elements of Law
  VI. Foundations of a Legal System
  1. Rule of Recognition and Legal Validity
  2. New Questions
  3. Pathology of a Legal System
  VII. Formalism and Rule-Scepticism
  1. Open Texture of Law
  2. Varieties of Rule-Scepticism
  3. Finality and Infallibility in Judicial Decision
  4. Uncertainty in the Rule of Recognition
  VIII. Justice and Morality
  1. Principles of Justice
  2. Moral and Legal Obligation
  3. Moral Ideals and Social Criticism
  IX. Laws and Morals
  1. Natural Law and Legal Positivism
  2. Minimum Content of Natural Law
  3. Legal Validity and Moral Value
  X. International Law
  1. Sources of Doubt
  2. Obligations and Sanctions
  3. Obligation and the Sovereignty of States
  4. International Law and Morality
  5. Analogies of Form and Content
  POSTSCRIPT
  Introductory
  1. Nature of Legal Theory
  2. Nature of Legal Positivism
  3. Nature of Rules
  4. Principles and the Rule of Recognition
  5. Law and Morality
  6. Judicial Discretion.