Author

Publication

2006-05-29 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

114,000 words, Guess

Page Count

456 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7402895M
  • ISBN-139780199202775
  • ISBN-10019920277X
  • OCLC Control Number63185887
  • LibraryThing295646
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  • Goodreads180242

Classifications

  • LCCK230.H3652.L33 2006

Description

This volume is the biography of H.L.A. Hart, the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the 20th century. As a scholar he re-invented the philosophy of law and revolutionised our understanding of law as a social institution. His writings had an enormous impact on informed public opinion in the 1960s.

First Sentence

AT the very beginning of the twentieth century, newly-weds Rose and Simeon Hart, furriers and dressmakers in the East End of London, decided to set up business in the northern spa town of Harrogate.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • A Life of H. L. A. HartOxford University Press, USA2006-05-29

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