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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2337</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-9001</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">41929</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2337-2024-28-4-778-797</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">HRUCMM</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>STATE AND LAW IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ГОСУДАРСТВО И ПРАВО В СОВРЕМЕННОМ МИРЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Revisiting legal positivism: H. Hart’s 1958 conception of legal reasoning in the lens of G. Postema</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Пересматривая юридический позитивизм: концепция юридического рассуждения Г. Харта 1958 г. в прочтении Дж. Постемы</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5541-9181</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">6195-5396</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kasatkin</surname><given-names>Sergei N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Касаткин</surname><given-names>Сергей Николаевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Theory of Law and Philosophy Department</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат юридических наук, доцент, доцент кафедры теории права и философии</p></bio><email>kasatka_s@bk.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Samara State University of Economics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Самарский государственный экономический университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>28</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 28, NO4 (2024)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 28, №4 (2024)</issue-title><fpage>778</fpage><lpage>797</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-12-11"><day>11</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Kasatkin S.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Касаткин С.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kasatkin S.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Касаткин С.Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/41929">https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/41929</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article explores the 1958 “Harvard” conception of legal reasoning presented by the British philosopher and jurist Herbert Hart, within the context of a contemporary reinterpretation by American jurist and historian of legal thought, Gerald Postema. Postema’s interpretation, labeling Hart’s view as “settled-meaning positivism”, posits it as a unity that encompasses both the delineation of distinct types of argumentation in the realms of “core” and “penumbra” (linguistically mediated clear and controversial cases of law enforcement) and the reduction of law and legal reasoning to the “core” of rules and their established linguistic meanings. The article aims to analyze Postema’s perspective in the broader context of the evolution of Hart’s views on legal indeterminacy and judicial decision-making. The relevance of this topic lies in the necessity for a more comprehensive and balanced reconstruction of Hart’s theory, which is paradigmatic for modern positivism and Anglophone jurisprudence, in the light of the contentious and narrow character of its assessments. The authority of the Postema’s interpretation, seen as providing new insights into the work of the British jurist, adds to the relevance of this analysis. The research uses diverse, primarily hermeneutical, methods, drawing from Postema’s paper and the available body of Hart’s writings, as well as the representative biographical and scientific literature. The article examines the historical context of the 1958 essay’s creation and the doctrine of judicial reasoning contained within it. Ultimately, while recognizing the stimulating role of Postema’s re-description of the 1958 doctrine, the article finds some of its key assertions (including Hart’s understanding of the nature of legal indeterminacy and judicial choice, the attribution of “settle-meaning positivism”, and a doctrine of the rule of law) to be contentious or unwarranted.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>О «гарвардской» концепции юридического рассуждения 1958 г. британского философа и правоведа Герберта Харта, рассмотренной в контексте ее оригинального прочтения, предложенного в наши дни американским правоведом и историком правовой мысли, Джеральдом Постемой. Согласно последнему, концепция Харта, маркируемая как «позитивизм установленного значения», представляется единством, с одной стороны, утверждения о резком различии типов аргументации в сферах «ядра» и «полутени» (лингвистически опосредованных ясных и спорных случаях правоприменения), с другой - сведения права и юридического рассуждения к «ядру» правил, их установленному языковому значению. Целью является анализ трактовки Постемы в «сквозной» перспективе развития взглядов Харта на правовую неопределенность и судебное решение. Актуальность темы обусловлена необходимостью более объемной и взвешенной реконструкции теории Харта, парадигмальной для современного позитивизма и англоязычной юриспруденции, на фоне дискуссионности и узости ее оценок, а равно авторитетностью трактовки Постемы, открывающей новые ракурсы в осмыслении творчества британского правоведа. Исследование использует различные, прежде всего герменевтические, методы и опирается, помимо работы Постемы, на доступный сегодня корпус сочинений Харта и репрезентативную биографическую и научную литературу. Как результат в статье рассматриваются исторические условия создания очерка 1958 г., присущая ему доктрина судебного рассуждения, дается характеристика и оценка истолкования этой доктрины Постемой. В качестве выводов в статье признается стимулирующая роль прочтения и переописания Постемой доктрины 1958 г., однако его ключевые утверждения (включая понимание Хартом природы правовой неопределенности и судейского выбора, вменение ему «позитивизма установленного значения» и доктрины господства права) видятся спорными / необоснованными.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>H.L.A. Hart</kwd><kwd>G. Postema</kwd><kwd>legal positivism</kwd><kwd>legal reasoning</kwd><kwd>legal indeterminacy</kwd><kwd>judicial discretion</kwd><kwd>limits of law</kwd><kwd>law and language</kwd><kwd>logic in law</kwd><kwd>the rule of law</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Г.Л.А. Харт</kwd><kwd>Дж. Постема</kwd><kwd>юридический позитивизм</kwd><kwd>юридическое рассуждение</kwd><kwd>правовая неопределенность</kwd><kwd>судейское усмотрение</kwd><kwd>границы права</kwd><kwd>право и язык</kwd><kwd>логика в праве</kwd><kwd>господство права</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Bix, B. (1993) Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy. Oxford, Clarendon Press.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Cohen, M. (ed.). (1984) Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence. 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