Known as harts most famous work the concept of law emerged from a set of lectures that hart began to deliver in 1952 in which he developed a sophisticated view of legal positivism hart revolutionized the methods of jurisprudence and the philosophy of law in the english speaking world by bringing the tools of analytic and especially linguistic philosophy to bear on the central problems of legal theory. The concept of law is the most important and original work of legal philosophy written this century first published in 1961 it is considered the masterpiece of hla harts enormous contribution to the study of jurisprudence and legal philosophy its elegant language and balanced arguments have sparked wide debate and unprecedented growth in the quantity and quality of scholarship in this area much of it devoted to attacking or defending harts theories principal among harts critics is . The concept of law clarendon law series kindle edition by hart hla raz joseph bulloch penelope a green leslie green leslie download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading the concept of law clarendon law series. Fifty years on from its original publication hla harts the concept of law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century it is a classic book in the field of legal scholarship and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first