Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 5 (Primary and Secondary Rules)

This is a lecture video about chapter 5 of HLA Hart's seminal 1961 book, The Concept of Law. In this chapter Hart begins to present his own theory of law. He distinguishes primary rules from secondary rules. He enumerates three defects that plague systems of rules composed only of primary rules (uncertainty, static-ness, and inefficiency). He then explains how thee defects are remedied by secondary rules (the rule of recognition, rule of change, and rule of adjudication, respectively). This is part of a Philosophy of Law course.