Lacey, Nicola 
ORCID: 0009-0006-6488-0918
(2013)
The path not taken: H.L.A. Hart's Harvard essay on discretion.
Harvard Law Review, 127 (2).
p. 636.
ISSN 0017-811X
Abstract
It is an extraordinary privilege to be able to introduce a previously unpublished essay by H. L. A. Hart, one of the most distinguished figures in twentieth-century legal philosophy, alongside a fine commentary by Geoffrey Shaw, the scholar whose intellectual imagination and meticulous archival research has brought the essay to light. It is particularly apt that H. L. A. Hart’s essay should be published by this Review, appearing fifty-seven years after it was written in the early months of his visit to Harvard, thus joining a distinguished tradition of posthumously published scholarship of the 1950s, most notably Lon Fuller’s The Forms and Limits of Adjudication, and Henry Hart and Albert Sacks’s The Legal Process. Its publication is also timely, albeit long delayed, in that it comes hard on the heels of a period in which the intellectual history of legal thought has been the subject of wide interest and some very powerful scholarship.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.harvardlawreview.org/index.php |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Harvard Law Review |
| Divisions: | Law |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) K Law > K Law (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2014 10:13 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55299 |
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