H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992)

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1. Ronald Dworkin

   Author of Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution, The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

2. H. L. A. Hart

   Author of The Concept of Law, Law, Liberty, and Morality, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

3. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Collected Papers

4. John Finnis

   Author of Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series)

5. Lon L. Fuller

   Author of The Morality of Law

6. R.M. Hare

   Author of The Language of Morals, Freedom and Reason

7. Richard A. Posner

   Author of Law and Literature, Overcoming Law, The Problems of Jurisprudence

8. Derek Parfit

   Author of Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks)

9. Jeremy Bentham

   Author of The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy), Bentham: A Fragment on Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

    Author of The Common Law, The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Hol

11. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Four Essays on Liberty

12. Gilbert Ryle

    Author of The Concept of Mind, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953

13. John Ely

    Author of Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review

14. Christine M. Korsgaard

    Author of The Sources of Normativity

15. Richard Rorty

    Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

16. Michael J. Sandel

    Author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

17. Joseph Raz

    Author of The Morality of Freedom (Clarendon Paperbacks), The Authority of Law

18. Robert Nozick

    Author of Anarchy, State and Utopia

19. Stuart Hampshire

    Author of Thought and action, Morality and Conflict

20. Patrick Devlin

    Author of The Enforcement of Morals