Why is the concept of law important?
It is a classic book in the field of legal scholarship and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. Known as Hart's most famous work, The Concept of Law emerged from a set of lectures that Hart began to deliver in 1952 in which he developed a sophisticated view of legal positivism.
Is international law really law?
Enforcement and the Concept of Law International law, many think, is not really law at all because it is not enforced. This Essay asks two philosophical questions about that claim. What do we mean by enforcement when we channel the intuition that enforcement is part of law’s nature? And what is the place of enforcement in our concept of law?
Is law objective?
The intuition, which I’d defend, is that law as law is to some extent objective. Its objectivity is not the hard stuff of formal logic or mathematics, where the answers are all true or false and there’s no need or room for judgment.
THE CONCEPT OF LAW