Hart–Devlin debate
{{Short description|Legal philosophy debate}}
The Hart–Devlin debate was a famous debate in the mid-twentieth century between legal philosophers Patrick Devlin and H. L. A. Hart about whether the law is a suitable tool for the enforcement of morality. The debate arose in the context of a proposal to decriminalize homosexuality in the United Kingdom. Devlin argued that the law is a suitable tool to enforce morality, while Hart disagreed.
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- {{cite journal |last1=Allan |first1=James |title=Revisiting the Hart-Devlin Debate: At the Periphery and By the Numbers |journal=San Diego Law Review |date=2017 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=423 |url=https://digital.sandiego.edu/sdlr/vol54/iss2/13/ |issn=0036-4037}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Cane |first1=Peter |title=Taking Law Seriously: Starting Points of the Hart/Devlin Debate |journal=The Journal of Ethics |date=2006 |volume=10 |issue=1/2 |pages=21–51 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115849 |issn=1382-4554}}
- {{cite journal |last=Caron|first=Yves| title=The Legal Enforcement of Morals and the So-Called Hart-Devlin Controversy | journal=McGill Law Journal | date=1969|volume=15|issue=1 | url=https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/the-legal-enforcement-of-morals-and-the-so-called-hart-devlin-controversy/ }}
- {{cite journal | last=Cranor | first=Carl F. | title=Bibliographical essay / the hart‐Devlin debate | journal=Criminal Justice Ethics | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=2 | issue=1 | year=1983 | issn=0731-129X | doi=10.1080/0731129x.1983.9991720 | pages=59–65}}
- {{cite journal | last=Feinberg | first=Joel | title=Some unswept debris from the hart-devlin debate | journal=Synthese | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=72 | issue=2 | year=1987 | issn=0039-7857 | doi=10.1007/bf00413641 | pages=249–275}}
- {{cite book |last1=George |first1=Robert P. |title=Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality |date=1995 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-102960-8 |language=en}}
- {{cite journal | last=HÄYRY | first=HETA | title=Liberalism and Legal Moralism: The Hart-Devlin Debate and Beyond | journal=Ratio Juris | publisher=Wiley | volume=4 | issue=2 | year=1991 | issn=0952-1917 | doi=10.1111/j.1467-9337.1991.tb00093.x | pages=202–218}}
- {{cite journal | last=Miller | first=B. W. | title=Morals Laws in an Age of Rights: Hart and Devlin at the Supreme Court of Canada | journal=The American Journal of Jurisprudence | publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) | volume=55 | issue=1 | date=2010 | issn=0065-8995 | doi=10.1093/ajj/55.1.79 | pages=79–103}}
- {{cite journal | last=Richter | first=Duncan J. | title=Social Integrity and Private ‘Immorality’ The Hart-Devlin Debate Reconsidered | journal=Essays in Philosophy | volume=2 | issue=2 | year=2001 | issn=1526-0569 | doi=10.5840/eip2001223 | pages=55–65}}
- {{cite web | last=Stanton-Ife | first=John | title=The Limits of Law | website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | date=2022-01-29 | url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/law-limits/ | access-date=2022-09-27}}
- {{cite web | title=Law and Morality: The Hart-Devlin Debate - 22 - v3 - Cavendish: Jurisp | website=Taylor & Francis | date=2002-02-14 | url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781843144373-22/law-morality-hart-devlin-debate-routledge-cavendish | ref={{sfnref | Taylor & Francis | 2002}} | access-date=2022-09-27}}
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