ABSTRACT
HLA Hart (1907-1992), who was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford during 1952-1968, was a leading figure in the post-war movement for the revival of interest in the philosophy of law in relation to the much wider field of general philosophical enquiry. He was interested particularly in the development of the doctrines of legal positivism (see 8.6) and set out his view of the fundamentals of a legal system in The Concept of Law (1961). The essence of Hart’s positivist approach emerges from the following propositions which may be derived from the text.
