Essays in jurisprudence and philosophy /
These essays, which cover a wide range of topics, were written by Professor Hart between 1953 and 1981, and first appeared in a variety of different books and journals.
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1983.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I General theory
- Definition and theory of jurisprudence (first published 1953)
- Positivism and separation of law and morals (first published 1958)
- Problems of the philosophy of law (first published 1967)
- Part II American jurisprudence
- American jurisprudence through English eyes: the nightmare and the noble dream (first published 1977)
- 1776-1976: Law in the perspective of philosophy (first published 1976)
- Part III Scandinavian jurisprudence
- Scandinavian realism (first published 1959)
- Self-referring laws (first published 1964)
- Part IV Liberty, utility and rights
- Utilitarianism and natural rights (first published 1978)
- Between utility and rights (first published 1973)
- Rawls on liberty and its priority (first published 1973)
- Social solidarity and the enforcement of morality (first published 1967)
- Part V Four legal theorists
- Jhering's Heaven concepts and modern analytical jurisprudence (first published 1970)
- Diamonds and string: Holmes on the common law (first published 1963)
- Kelsen visited (first published 1963)
- Kelsen's Doctrine of the Unity of Law (first published 1968)
- Lon L. Fuller: the morality of law (first published 1965)
- Part VI
- The house of lords on attempting the impossible (first published 1981).