This is a lecture video about chapter 6 of HLA Hart's seminal 1961 book, The Concept of Law. The chapter is titled "The Foundations of a Legal System" and it is mostly concerned with the Rule of Recognition, how such a rule halts the regress of legal validity, and how it is a social rule that comes to exist because enough officials of a legal system accept it from the internal point of view. This lecture is part of a Philosophy of Law course.
I have also made lecture videos about previous chapters of the book (skipping chapter 1 because that chapter is boring and not really important). Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5:
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