Volume 12, Number 10 · May 22, 1969
Morality and the Law
By Ronald Dworkin
Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law
by H.L.A. Hart
Oxford, 284 pp., $2.50 (paper)
H. L. A. Hart became Professor of Jurisprudence in Oxford in 1952, and since that time he has dominated and transformed legal theory. He has persuaded a generation of academic lawyers to face issues of legal and moral principle that their predecessors had ignored, and to attack these issues with the precision and skills of contemporary moral philosophy. I shall try to explain what these issues of principle are, and why Hart's work has made so great a difference, but in order to do so I must describe the subject of jurisprudence itself, and the theories of jurisprudence that held the field at the time Hart began.
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