Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora (University at Buffalo Law School) has posted Sets and Systems: A Reinterpretation of Hart’s Fable (Jurisprudence, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: HLA Hart’s famous ‘fable’ in which the ‘legal system’ remedies the defects of a ‘pre-legal society’ is typically understood as offering an account of law. This article challenges the standard interpretation of Hart’s project and develops an alternative reading.

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