H.L.A. Hart: A Twentieth-Century Oxford Political Philosopher

Authors

John M. Finnis, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Publication Information

54 Am. J. Juris. 161 (2009)

Abstract

This essay offers first a sketch (by a student and colleague) of H.L.A. Hart's life; second an account of the political philosophy which he explicitly articulated in The Concept of Law (1961), and of its relation to the main currents of Oxford political philosophy in the 1950s; and thirdly an exposition and critical assessment of the normative political theory deployed, to widespread acclaim, in his Law, Liberty & Morality (1963).

Comments

Reprinted with permission of American Journal of Jurisprudence.

Recommended Citation

John M. Finnis, H.L.A. Hart: A Twentieth-Century Oxford Political Philosopher, 54 Am. J. Juris. 161 (2009).
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