A life of H.L.A. Hart : the nightmare and the noble dream
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780199202775
LCCN
K 230 .L33
DDC
340
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
xxii, 422 pages
Subject
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
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Abstract
"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 revolutionized our understanding of law as a social institution. His writings had an enormous impact on informed public opinion in the 1960s." - Voila
Description
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.
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.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (404) and index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Donated by Graham Price.
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