caa a22 4500 388051094 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1352325200001063 doi S1352325200001063 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1352325200001063 Soper Philip University of Michigan Law School Two Puzzles from the Postscript [Elektronische Daten] [Philip Soper] Conversions occur in legal theory about as often as they do in religion, which is to say rarely—so rarely that they fascinate as much for the fact that they happen at all as for the reasons they happen. It should not surprise, then, that the Postscript to H.L.A. Hart's famous work on jurisprudence reveals "the outstanding English philosopher of law of the twentieth century” reaffirming, rather than revising in any significant way, the two central tenets that distinguish his theory from that of both classical natural law theorists and modern "new naturalists” like Ronald Dworkin: (1) There is no necessary connection between law and morality; and (2) judges inevitably confront cases where the decision is "not dictated by the law” and the judge "must act as a conscientious legislator would by deciding according to his own beliefs and values” (p. 273). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/3(1998-09), 359-380 1352-3252 4:3<359 1998 4 LEG https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200001063 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200001063 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Soper Philip University of Michigan Law School NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/3(1998-09), 359-380 1352-3252 4:3<359 1998 4 LEG CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge