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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 would breaking the rule allow some individual to do?

2. What cannot laws be reduced to?

3. What are customary society's rules unable to do?

4. How can laws of judicial practice and other like it be understood as?

5. What have judges power to do in the structure judicial practice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did secondary rules confer?

2. What is rare for individuals in modern societies?

3. What is the habit of obedience understood to apply to?

4. What is law?

5. What do laws require?

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

7. What are customs given?

8. What did Hart want to explain?

9. What happens to laws?

10. What does the doctrine of sovereignty often hold?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the tie between international law and morality.

Essay Topic 2

Compare moral rules and legal rules.

Essay Topic 3

Examine H.L.A. Hart's definition of the concept of law, and discuss the three questions that combine into the question of what law is.

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