Practice and theory in the concept of law
This chapter challenges the widely held assumption that H.L.A. Hart endorsed a fatally flawed theory of rules known as ‘the practice theory’. In the first section I lay out the practice theory. The second section marshals evidence of the theory’s inconsistency with central aspects of Hart’s understa...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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