Hart, Fuller, and Everything After: The Politics of Legal Theory
Author ORCID Identifier
Allan C. Hutchinson: 0009-0003-8974-2886
Files
Available in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library
Description
More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship – too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness. But the mission of this book is distinctly and determinedly different – it is not to rework these already-rehashed ideas, but to reject them entirely.
Rather than add to the massive jurisprudential literature that has been generated by all and sundry, the book criticises and abandons the project that Hart and Fuller set in motion. It contends that the turn that was taken in 1957 has led down a series of cul-de-sacs, blind alleys, and dead-ends to nowhere useful or illuminating. It is more than past time to leave their debate behind and strike out in an entirely new and more promising direction. The book insists that not only law, but also all theorising about law, is political in all its derivations, dimensions, and directions.
ISBN
9781509965205
Publication Date
2-23-2023
Publisher
Hart Publishing
City
Oxford
Disciplines
Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Philosophy | Law and Politics
Repository Citation
Hutchinson, Allan C., "Hart, Fuller, and Everything After: The Politics of Legal Theory" (2023). Books. 401.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/401