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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 does Hart wonder about international law?

2. What does Hart cite counterexamples of concerning international obligations?

3. What do judges do when they state that a law is valid?

4. What does communication involve?

5. What make the conduct obligatory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is often indeterminate?

2. What does the minimum content view do away with?

3. What ambiguity did Hart discuss?

4. What are the two parts of justice?

5. What happened when secondary rules of recognition were accepted according to Chapter 6?

6. What does legislation tend to focus on according to Chapter 7?

7. What does sovereignty denote?

8. What were the boundaries left up to?

9. How could the ultimate rule of recognition be recognized?

10. What are the two problems that arise?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the origins of laws.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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