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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 the first question Hart identified?

2. What is related to law according to Hart?

3. Where do many laws originate from?

4. What is a common myth about laws?

5. What do the first type of rules do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is social pressure serious?

2. What does Hart continue to illustrate?

3. What was the most serious attempt to analyze the concept of law according to Chapter 2?

4. Why is the concept of law hard, according to Chapter 1?

5. What does the criminal law specify?

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 do laws require?

10. What are customs given?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare moral rules and legal rules.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one question raised by Hart's theory, examine its significance, and come to a conclusion regarding the question.

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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