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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?

2. How many questions did Hart identified that combine into the question of what law is?

3. What do the law of torts specify the conditions of?

4. What is a common myth about laws?

5. What are rules sometime understood as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do laws sometimes apply to?

2. How do we speak of justice?

3. What will happen if we examine the many types of law according to Chapter 3?

4. What have some philosophers analyzed?

5. What does Hart continue to illustrate?

6. Who do the laws made by the Queen of England not apply to?

7. What are the first two questions that combine into the question of what law is?

8. What are understood as norms?

9. What is law?

10. What does the criminal law specify?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the sovereignty conception of law.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the origins of laws.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of Austin's Province of Jurisprudence Determined and Hart's criticism of Austin.

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