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Concept of Law

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ISBN-10: 0199644705

ISBN-13: 9780199644704

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: H. L. A. Hart, Leslie Green, Joseph Raz, Penelope A. Bulloch

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List price: $44.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.43" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Introduction
Hart's Message
Law as a Social Construction
Law and Power
Law and Morality
Fact, Value, and Method
The Point
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 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 the Sovereignty of States
International Law and Morality
Analogies of Form and Content
Postscript
Introductory
The Nature of Legal Theory
The Nature of Legal Positivism
The Nature of Rules
Principles and the Rule of Recognition
Law and Morality
Judicial Discretion
Notes
Notes to the Third Edition
Index