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H.L.A. Hart Interview Part Three: Early Philosophical Work (audio)

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2012 · Education

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In 1988 H.L.A. Hart gave a wide-ranging interview to Professor David Sugarman. The interview encompassed Hart's childhood, philosophical influences, career inside and beyond philosophy, his major philosophical work, his arguments with Lon Fuller, Patrick Devlin, and Ronald Dworkin, his views on the nature of legal philosophy and legal education, and his legacy.

To celebrate the publication of the third edition of Hart's most famous work, The Concept of Law, OUP has remastered and released, by kind permission of Professor Sugarman, the full audio recording of the interview for the first time.

In the third part of the interview, Hart discusses his early philosophical publications of the 1940s and 1950s, including The Ascription of Responsibility and Rights, Are There Any Natural Rights?, and his inaugural lecture Definition and Theory in Jurisprudence. He also gives an account of his election to the Oxford Chair of Jurisprudence, and the state of jurisprudence at the time of his election to the Chair, including the work of Arthur Goodhart, C.K. Allen, and G.C. Cheshire. He discusses his attitude to legal sociology, and his work with J.L. Austin on the nature of rules.

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