A life of H.L.A. Hart : the nightmare and the noble dream / Nicola Lacey.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Hart, H. L. A. -- (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), -- 1907-1992.

Law -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.

Lawyers -- England -- Biography.

Legal Biography.

Jurisprudence -- History.

Pt 1. North and South

1. Harrogate, Cheltenham, Bradford

2. An Oxford scholar

3. Success snatched from defeat: London and the bar

Pt 2. Change and continuity

4. Jenifer

5. From the Inns of Court to military intelligence: M15, marriage, and fatherhood

6. Oxford from the other side of the fence

Pt 3. The golden age

7. Selling philosophy to the lawyers: the chair of jurisprudence

8. American jurisprudence through English eyes: Harvard 1956-7

9. Law in the perspective of philosophy: causation in the law, the concept of law

10. West and East, California and Israel: law liberty, and morality - Kelsen visited: the morality of the criminal law

11. Discipline, punishment, and responsibility

12. Old turks and young fogeys: Bentham and Brasenose

13. The nightmare and the noble dream.

Includes bibliography and index.

9780199274970

xxii, 422 p. : ill.