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  • ‘You gotta roll/rule with it’: Oasis and the concept of law

    Author(s)
    Sykes, Robbie
    Tranter, Kieran
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Sykes, Robbie J.
    Tranter, Kieran M.
    Year published
    2015
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    This article analyses HLA Hart's legal positivist theory through the life and music of the English band Oasis. It is argued that bringing Hart and Oasis into co-orbit reveals a fundamental ambiguity and anxiety within Hart's jurisprudential performance. It is argued that Oasis’ self-confidence compares to Hart's certainty of a distinction between law and morality and Oasis’ populism echoes Hart's claim of law as dependent on communal assent. However, an examination of Oasis also makes visible an essential critique of the certain and voluntary nature of Hart's system. Oasis’ performances, on and offstage, highlight the ...
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    This article analyses HLA Hart's legal positivist theory through the life and music of the English band Oasis. It is argued that bringing Hart and Oasis into co-orbit reveals a fundamental ambiguity and anxiety within Hart's jurisprudential performance. It is argued that Oasis’ self-confidence compares to Hart's certainty of a distinction between law and morality and Oasis’ populism echoes Hart's claim of law as dependent on communal assent. However, an examination of Oasis also makes visible an essential critique of the certain and voluntary nature of Hart's system. Oasis’ performances, on and offstage, highlight the undisclosed essentiality of violence within The Concept of Law that betrays ambiguity and anxiety regarding core elements of Hart's jurisprudential performance; the role of officials and the clarity of rules.
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    Journal Title
    Griffith Law Review
    Volume
    24
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2015.1138922
    Subject
    Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation
    HLA Hart's legal positivist theory
    Oasis
    Communal assent
    Violence
    Ambiguity
    Anxiety
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/99231
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