Decades of an insistence on legal positivism (the philosophy that law is a set of rules created by human authorities, distinct from morality or ethics) at the exclusion of any real consideration ...

[In 1957, Professor H.L.A. Hart of Oxford University gave a lecture at Harvard, subsequently published as "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 Harv. J. Rev. 593 (1958). In this talk, ...