By Lawrence B. Solum Introduction Most law students begin to notice that there is a fundamental difference between the kinds of legal rules that come up in torts and criminal law, on the one hand, and the sorts of legal rules that arise in contracts and in the structural part of constitutional law, on the

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By Lawrence B. Solum Introduction How can we look at a legal system? H.L.A. Hart famously deployed the distinction between external and internal perspectives on a legal system in his famous book, The Concept of Law. This post provides a very brief introduction to this distinction for law students (especially first-year law students) with an

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