Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 6 (The Rule of Recognition)

This is a lecture video about chapter 6 of HLA Hart's seminal 1961 book, The Concept of Law. The chapter is titled "The Foundations of a Legal System" and it is mostly concerned with the Rule of Recognition, how such a rule halts the regress of legal validity, and how it is a social rule that comes to exist because enough officials of a legal system accept it from the internal point of view. This lecture is part of a Philosophy of Law course.

I have also made lecture videos about previous chapters of the book (skipping chapter 1 because that chapter is boring and not really important).

[MburuNahashon]

I really struggled understanding the Hart's theory of law but after watching the videos from Chapter 2 to 6, I found it very easy.
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[a-moralphilosopher]

Thank you for this! This is a super clear introduction to Hart's concept of the rule of recognition. I really look forward to watching the rest of this series.

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[johnmichaelcule]

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Perhaps the same thing could be said of my attitude to many other social or even legal rules. Hmmm

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[robertwalker]

About 20 years ago I went to an African country to advise on public finance accounting. There was an employment law that required complex calculations of future benefits which was inconvenient from a practical point of view. The strange thing about it was that law had been given effect by a military council after a coup but before democracy was restored. I am confident that the generals had little idea of what was in it as it was purely technical. It was accepted without question by all the officials I dealt with. I always wondered why.

[TheMODEE]

1;13 I thought that the rule of recognition is under the secondary rules???

[flademirsilva]

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[christinepui]

Hi! Not sure whether you would respond to this but I was wondering how the rule of change worked. So umm from what I got from your vids the rule of change is basically to facilitate the change in primary rules. But does Hart ever go into more detail on this? How do we decide when to change the primary rules? If we say that Parliament changes the primary rules based on what they feel the law ought to be, and so 'what the law ought to be' becomes 'what the law is', then doesn't that make the positivist divide between 'what the law is' and 'what the law ought to be' seem a bit illusory? I could also be mucking this all up with my poor understanding of legal theory anyway haha. Thanks for the really good videos they were super helpful!!

[GamingPoliz]

I'm skimming through your Great Videos, just wondering do you have on Harts "Open texture of law"

[aryanjaiswal]

Can Rule of recognition be compared to Kelson s GRUNDNORM