The Concept of Law
by H. L. A. Hart
4/5
Oxford University Press 432 pages April 22, 2012
H. L. A. Hart's seminal 1961 work introduced the "rule of recognition" and reshaped legal philosophy in the analytic tradition. Now in its third edition with a substantial introduction by Leslie Green and Hart's own famous Postscript responding to Dworkin.
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Hart was the most important Anglophone legal philosopher of the 20th century, and this is the book law students still wrestle with sixty years later. His move was to distinguish "primary rules" (don't steal) from "secondary rules" (rules about how to make and recognize rules), and to argue that law is essentially the union of the two. Dworkin spent his career arguing Hart was wrong, which is the highest possible compliment. Read this before you tackle Dworkin's Law's Empire or Raz's Authority of Law. Four worms. Dense but rewarding.
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