Auteur: H. L. A. Hart

An updated and extended second edition supporting the findings of its well-known predecessor which claimed that courts employ common-sense notions of causation in determining legal responsibility. …

In his introduction Professor Hart offers both an exposition and a critical assesment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Essay themes include Bentham’s identification of th …

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This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its argume …

In the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9). In ‘Comment on the Commentaries’, on which Bentham be …

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its argume …