Hart Publishing has noted
that Kristen Rundle’s Forms Liberate: Reclaiming
the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller won
the Second Prize in the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize for Outstanding
Legal Scholarship 2012:
Lon L Fuller's account of what he termed 'the internal
morality of law' is widely accepted as the classic twentieth century statement
of the principles of the rule of law. Much less accepted is his claim that a
necessary connection between law and morality manifests in these principles,
with the result that his jurisprudence largely continues to occupy a marginal
place in the field of legal philosophy.
In Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of
Lon L Fuller, Kristen Rundle offers a close textual analysis of Fuller's
published writings and working papers to explain how his claims about the
internal morality of law belong to a wider exploration of the ways in which the
distinctive form of law introduces meaningful limits to lawgiving power through
its connection to human agency. By reading Fuller on his own terms, Forms
Liberate demonstrates why his challenge to a purely instrumental conception
of law remains salient for twenty-first century legal scholarship.
Other recent Hart publications include:
David S Clark, Comparative Law
And Society:
Giuseppe Martinico and Oreste Pollicino, The Interaction
Between Europe’s Legal Systems: Judicial Dialogue and the Creation
of Supranational Laws:
