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LAW, MORALITY, AND SOCIETY - ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF H L A HART

NCJ Number
44436
Editor(s)
P M S HACKER, J RAZ
Date Published
1977
Length
319 pages
Annotation
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS CONCENTRATE ON THEMES IN JURISPRUDENCE, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL THEORY.
Abstract
THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME ARE COLLEAGUES AND FORMER PUPILS OF PROFESSOR HART; THE ESSAYS PRESENTED HONOR PROFESSOR HART AND HIS ACHIEVEMENT IN PHILOSOPHY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY IN 1977. TOPICS INCLUDE HART'S PHILOSOPHY OF LAW; THE PHENOMENON OF LAW; NAIVE INSTRUMENTALISM AND THE LAW; POSITIVISM, ADJUDICATION, AND DEMOCRACY; THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE RULES OF PRECEDENT; INTENTION AND 'MENS REA' (GUILTY MIND) IN MURDER; THE GROUNDS OF RESPONSIBILITY; RIGHTS IN LEGISLATION; JUSTICE BETWEEN GENERATIONS; AND HARM AND SELF-INTEREST. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF H.L.A. HART INCLUDED.

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