H.L.A. Hart
- Jurist
- H.L.A. Hart
- School
- Analytical Positivism
- Theory
- Soft Legal Positivism; law as the union of Primary Rules and Secondary Rules; Rule of Recognition; Internal Point of View; Minimum Content of Natural Law.
- Quote
Primary rules impose obligations, while secondary rules provide for the creation, alteration, and adjudication of primary rules.
- Books
The Concept of Law, Law, Liberty and Morality, Punishment and Responsibility
- Propounded
Law as the union of primary and secondary rules; Rule of Recognition; Minimum content of natural law
- Born
- 1907
- Died
- 1992
- Portrait
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