H.L.A. Hart
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What Sort of Rules Are in a Constitution?
A very interesting post about constitutionalism by C.J. Peters on his new MODblog makes a couple of claims that is worth addressing at some length. Constitutional law, prof. Peters suggests, consists of “legal rules that are both entrenched and secondary” (his emphasis). “Secondary” rules refers to H.L.A. Hart’s category for rules that, unlike “primary” rules which impose duties to Continue reading
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Hart and Voice
As part of its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept of Law, the Oxford University Press has put online the recordings of a substantive interview David Sugarman took with Hart, in 1988. (You have to scroll down to get to the audio links.) There’s a lot of interesting stuff there. Though much Continue reading
Double Aspect 