University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series

University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series

 

A Critical Guide to Vehicles in the Park

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law

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forthcoming: NYU L.Rev.(2008)

Abstract

The 1958 debate in the pages of the Harvard Law Review between Lon Fuller and H.L.A. Hart is one of the landmarks of modern jurisprudence. And although much of the debate was about the relative merits of Hart’s version of legal positivism and Fuller’s brand of natural law theory, the debate also contained the memorable controversy about the fictional rule prohibiting vehicles from the park. By examining this debate, and by largely removing it from the surrounding controversy over positivism and natural law, we can still gain valuable insights about legal rules, legal interpretation, and the nature of legal language

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Jurisprudence, Public Law and Legal Theory

Recommended Citation

Frederick Schauer, "A Critical Guide to Vehicles in the Park" (June 2008). University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series. University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. Working Paper 93.
http://law.bepress.com/uvalwps/uva_publiclaw/art93

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