PHL271H1 Midterm: PHL271, midterm questions
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At the midterm next week you will be given one of the questions below. You will not be given a choice at the exam. So you should prepare for both questions and be ready to answer either one. Please let me know if you have questions about the midterm. Explain what makes something a valid law for hart, by reference to the movement from a more primitive, pre-legal society to a society with a full-blown legal system. Contrast hart"s positivist view of law with a natural law theorist"s (such as aquinas") theory of law. Dworkin"s interpretive theory of the nature of law. Finally, pick one of the cases we"ve discussed in which the law and morality seem to conflict (riggs v. palmer; billy budd; Explain what hart means by the problems of the penumbra. " explain how these problems might be thought to pose a challenge to positivist theories of law, with attention paid to.