Hart-Fuller Debate in the Twenty-First Century

Peter Cane is Professor and Director of the John Fleming Centre for Advancement of Legal Research at the Australian National University.

• 1. Out of the 'Witches' Cauldron'? Reinterpreting the Context and Reassessing the Significance of the Hart-Fuller Debate Nicola Lacey 2. Human Rights and the Rule of Law After Conflict Hilary Charlesworth 3. The Hart-Fuller Debate's Silence on Human Rights Karen Knop 4. International Criminal Law and the Inner Morality of Law Larry May 5. On Visibility and Secrecy in International Criminal Law Christopher Kutz 6. The Hart-Fuller Debate, Transitional Societies and the Rule of Law Martin Krygier 7. Legal Pluralism and the Contrast Between Hart's Jurisprudence and Fuller's Jeremy Waldron 8. The Politics of Defining Law Margaret Davies 9. Law as a Means Leslie Green 10. Comment on 'Law as a Means' Anthony J Sebok 11. Two Turns of the Screw Desmond Manderson 12. The Common Discourse of Hart and Fuller Ngaire Naffine 13. How Norms Become Normative Philip Pettit 14. Resentment, Excuse and Norms Richard H McAdams 15. Positivism and the Separation of Realists from their Scepticism: Normative Guidance, the Rule of Law and Legal Reasoning Gerald J Postema 16. Legal Reasoning, the Rule of Law and Legal Theory Brian H Bix

... the ideal entrance point into the famous debate between H.L.A. Hart and L. Fuller. The aim of Cane's edited collection is twofold: the chapters grapple with the debate on its own terms, while extracting lessons for the modern world. The book is remarkably successful at both tasks This book promises to be a source of questions for the curious minds of all philosophical persuasions. Margaret Martin Ethics July 2012