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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading HLA Harts The Concept of Law by Edited by Luis Duarte dAlmeida Edited by James Edwards Edited by Andrea Dolcetti
More than 50 years after it was first published The Concept of Law remains the most important work of legal philosophy in the English-speaking world. In this volume written for both students and specialists 13 leading scholars look afresh at Harts great book.Unique in format the volume proceeds sequentially through all the main ideas in The Concept of Law: each contributor addresses a single chapter of Harts book critically discussing its arguments in light of subsequent developments in the field. Four concluding essays assess the continued relevance for jurisprudence of the persistent questions identified by Hart at the beginning of The Concept of Law.Contributors: Timothy Endicott Richard Tur Pavlos Eleftheriadis John Gardner Grant Lamond Nicos Stavropoulos Leslie Green John Tasioulas Jeremy Waldron John Finnis Frederick Schauer Pierluigi Chiassoni and Nicola Lacey.