HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - William Henry Harvey, Legal Positivism, Lon L. Fuller
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Positivism and the separation of law and morals (pp. See also a pr cis of the article + a vocabulary list (pp. [typos p. 128: add of : before hart considers the attacks of the critics : 129: line 4, rule instead of rules and in part v, add hart to the first line: Although as a legal positivist hart believes . extracts (pp. 171-79) from hart"s seminal book, the concept of law, published in. In these extracts, hart gives us what he considers the essence of law. Having explained what primary rules and secondary rules of obligation are, he says that law is the union of primary and secondary rules. He also gives us the two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for a legal system to exist. Brief biography of h. l. a. (herbert lionel adolphus) hart (1907-1992) often called the most widely read british legal philosopher in the 20th c.