Hart, Fuller, and Everything After

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.>

Auteur
Allan C Hutchinson is Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada. He holds an LLB from the University of London, an LLM and LLD from the University of Manchester, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Barrister of Gray's Inn and of the Bar of Ontario. He has been a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University since 1982. During that time, he has also held a variety of visiting appointments around the world, including at the Universities of Wales, London, Sydney, Monash, and Toronto. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 2007. He is appointed to the position of Distinguished Research Professor at York University, is elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and was awarded the University-wide Teaching Award. Allan is a legal theorist of international repute. He has published and/or edited over 20 books, has contributed many chapters in books and numerous articles in the world's leading law reviews and is a regular contributor to the media.