Hart's Postscript Essays on the Postscript to The Concept of Law

by Coleman, Jules

• ISBN13: 9780198299080
• ISBN10: 0198299087
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Postscript to 'The Concept of Law' contains Herbert Hart's only sustained and considered response to the objections made by his distinguished critic, Ronald Dworkin. In this extraordinary collection, an array of leading legal philosophers evaluates the success of Hart's responses to Dworkin.

Author Biography

Jules Coleman is Professor of Law at Yale Law School

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Two Views of the Nature of the Theory of Law: A Partial Comparison	1	(38)
Joseph Raz
Herbert Hart and the Semantic Sting	39	(20)
Timothy A. O. Endicott
Hart's Semantics	59	(40)
Nicos Stavropoulos
Incorporationism, Conventionality, and the Practical Difference Thesis	99	(50)
Jules Coleman
On Hart's Way Out	149	(44)
Scott J. Shapiro
Legal Conventionalism	193	(26)
Andrei Marmor
The Model of Social Facts	219	(52)
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Law's Claim of Legitimate Authority	271	(40)
Kenneth Einar Himma
Hart's Methodological Positivism	311	(44)
Stephen R. Perry
Legal Realism, Hard Positivism, and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis	355	(16)
Brian Leiter
The Political Question of the Concept of Law	371	(39)
Liam Murphy
Normative (or Ethical) Positivism	410	(25)
Jeremy Waldron
Index	435