Readings:

 Veitch et al, Jurisprudence, 3nd ed., chs10 & 11.

 Lloyd’s Jurisprudence 8th ed., 247-269; 305-323; 326-338; 371-391; 510-520
 HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (1961) especially 77-114; 181-207.
 There is an audio interview with Hart is available here:
http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/h-l-a-hart-in-conversation-with-david-sugarman/
 HLA Hart, ‘The New Challenge to Legal Positivism’ (2016) 3 Oxford J Legal Studies
 Neil MacCormick, HLA Hart (1981) 20-28 (and generally); (2nd ed., 2008)
 Neil MacCormick, ‘The Concept of Law and ‘The Concept of Law’’ (1994) Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies 1-23 (available online).
 Nicola Lacey, HLA Hart (2006) [an intellectual biography]
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: entries ‘The Nature of Law: Legal Positivism’;
‘Nature of Law: Pure Theory of Law’; at http://plato.stanford.edu/
 Wacks, "One Country, Two Grundnormen? The Basic Law and the Basic Norm," in
Wacks (ed.), Hong Kong, China, and 1997: Essays in Legal Theory, Hong Kong
University Press, 1993. Available online at HKU Library
 Kelsen: Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory, (1934/1992) (incl.
‘Introduction’ by Paulsen); Pure Theory of Law (1967); General theory of law and
state