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Author MacCormick, Neil.

Title H.L.A. Hart / Neil MacCormick
Edition Second edition
Published Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description x, 242 pages
Series Jurists : profiles in legal theory
Jurists-- profiles in legal theory.
Contents Hart : moral critic and analytical jurist -- Hart's conception of law -- Social rules -- Morality, positive and critical -- Obligation, duty, wrongdoing -- Powers and power-conferring rules -- Rights -- The legal order I : primary elements of law -- The legal order II : secondary rules -- Judicial discretion and the judicial role -- Sanctions, punishments, justice -- Law, morality and positivism
Summary This substantially revised new edition provides a constructive, critical account of Hart's legal thought and an introduction to the life and works of a great English legal philosopher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ( pages 215-236) and index
Subject Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992.
Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992 -- Bibliography.
Jurisprudence.
Genre/Form Bibliographies.
LC no. 2007044945
ISBN 9780804756785 cloth alkaline paper
9780804756792 paperback alkaline paper