Download or read book Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy written by H. L. A. Hart and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-11-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection of essays includes Professor Hart's first defense of legal positivism; his discussion of the distinctive teaching of American and Scandinavian jurisprudence; an examination of theories of basic human rights and the notion of "social solidarity," and essays on Jhering, Kelsen, Holmes, and Lon Fuller.