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H.L.A. Hart
HLA (Herbert) Hart (1907-1992)
Hart was the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish and German descent. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and New College Oxford, where he obtained a brilliant first class in Classical Greats.
He practised at the Chancery Bar from 1932 to 1940 along with Richard (later Lord) Wilberforce.
Hla hart biography
During the war, being unfit for active service, he worked in MI5. During this time his interests returned to philosophy and in 1945 he was appointed philosophy tutor at New College. He was strongly influenced by the linguistic philosophy then current in Oxford, but employed its techniques more constructively than did most members of the movement.
In 1952, given his chancery background, he was persuaded by JL Austin to be a candidate for the Oxford chair of Jurisprudence when Professor Arthur Goodhart resigned. He was elected and held the chair until 1969.
From 1952 on he delivered the undergraduate lectures that turned into The Concept of Law&