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A classic work, widely influential and still frequently cited, essential reading for all scholars and students of criminal law, criminal justice and legal theoryAccessibly written in H.L.A. Hart's clear style, providing a rich source of insight on problems of criminal justice and penal policy, accessible to a very wide range of readersbeyond legal specialistsPagination of the main text is unaltered from the original edition, allowing citations to be left unchanged. A new introduction by John Gardner provides a critical engagement with the book's main arguments and discusses its continued…mehr

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A classic work, widely influential and still frequently cited, essential reading for all scholars and students of criminal law, criminal justice and legal theoryAccessibly written in H.L.A. Hart's clear style, providing a rich source of insight on problems of criminal justice and penal policy, accessible to a very wide range of readersbeyond legal specialistsPagination of the main text is unaltered from the original edition, allowing citations to be left unchanged. A new introduction by John Gardner provides a critical engagement with the book's main arguments and discusses its continued influence on contemporary criminal law theory
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, represents H.L.A. Hart's landmark contribution to the philosophy of criminal responsibility and punishment. Unavailable for ten years, this new edition reproduces the original text, adding a new critical introduction by John Gardner, a leading contemporary criminal law theorist.
Autorenporträt
The Late H.L.A. Hart was Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford from 1952 to 1968. Subsequently he became Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. His other major works include Causation in the Law (with Tony Honoré, OUP 1959), The Concept of Law (OUP 1961) and Law, Liberty and Morality (OUP 1963). ; John Gardner has been Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford since 2000. He is a former Fellow of All Souls and Brasenose Colleges in Oxford, and has also taught at King's College London, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and the University of Texas. His book Offences and Defences is forthcoming from OUP.