H.L.A. Hart: The concept of law Chap 1-4

The is the first event of the Berkeley Philosophy of Law Group.

H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law, Chapter 1-4

From Wikipedia: Hart was an English legal philosopher. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. His most famous work is The Concept of Law (1961; 3rd edition, 2012), which has been hailed as "the most important work of legal philosophy written in the twentieth century". He is considered one of the world's foremost legal philosophers in the twentieth century, alongside Hans Kelsen
Hart strongly influenced the application of methods in his version of Anglo-American positive law to jurisprudence and the philosophy of law in the English-speaking world. Influenced by John Austin, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans Kelsen, Hart brought the tools of analytic, and especially linguistic, philosophy to bear on the central problems of legal theory.
Hart's method combined the careful analysis of twentieth-century analytic philosophy with the jurisprudential tradition of Jeremy Bentham, the great English legal, political, and moral philosopher. Hart's conception of law had parallels to the Pure Theory of Law formulated by Austrian legal philosopher Hans Kelsen, though Hart rejected several distinctive features of Kelsen's theory.

I'd like to go through a chapter a session and meet weekly. I will help direct the conversation, if necessary, to make sure we stay on track, but this is not a lecture series. I am not a Hart scholar so we are learning together. I do have a background in Wittgenstein and some familiarity with Bentham.