Legal Theory

Table of Contents - 1998 - Volume 4, Issue 03 (Special Issue: Postscript to H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law, Part I)  

Articles

Hart's Concluding Scientific Postscript

Michael Moorea1

a1 University of Pennsylvania

It has often and correctly been remarked that the Hart-Fuller debate of 1956–1969 set the agenda for Anglo-American jurisprudence in the last half of the twentieth century. The nature of law, of legal obligation, of legal authority, and of law's relation to morality were the questions that debate made central to jurisprudence as we have since practiced it.