A life of H.L.A. Hart : the nightmare and the noble dream /
This volume is the biography of H.L.A. Hart, the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the 20th century. As a scholar he re-invented the philosophy of law and revolutionised our understanding of law as a social institution. His writings had an enormous impact on informed public opinion in the 1960s.
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Table of Contents:
- Harrogate, Cheltenham, Bradford
- An Oxford scholar
- Success snatched from defeat: London and the bar
- Jenifer
- From the Inns of Court to military intelligence: MI5, marriage, and fatherhood
- Oxford from the other side of the fence
- Selling philosophy to the lawyers: the chair of jurisprudence
- American jurisprudence through English eyes: Harvard 1956-7
- Law in the perspective of philosophy: causation in the law, the concept of law
- West and east, California and Israel: law, liberty, and morality; Kelsen visited; The morality of the criminal law
- Discipline, punishment, and responsibility
- Old Turks and young fogeys: Bentham and Brasenose
- The nightmare and the noble dream.