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Hierarhični model in Hartov pojem prava. Pravo običajno povezujemo s prakso ukazovanja in hierarhičnostjo. Zdi se, da bi pravno pravilo moralo nemudoma vzpostaviti razmerje nadrejenosti in podrejenosti. Takšnemu hierarhičnemu in avtoritarnemu razumevanju prava pa je mogoče oporekati, ko enkrat fenomenologijo pravila preučujemo s pogledom od znotraj, tj. z vidika tistih, za katere lahko rečemo, da pravilo »uporabljajo« in mu niso »podrejeni«. V prakso usmerjen pristop bi tako lahko pravni teoriji odprl bolj liberalno, in manj ozkogledno ter ideološko pot. Kot v tem članku zatrjuje avtor, je to tudi program oziroma obljuba, ki jo najdemo v Herberta Harta temeljnem delu Koncept prava. Članek to obljubo osvetljuje, ne da bi se skušal izogniti slepim pegam Hartove naracije in argumentativne strategije.

Law is traditionally related to the practice of command and hierarchy. It seems that a legal rule should immediately establish a relation between a superior and an inferior. This hierarchical and authoritharian view might however be challenged once the phenomenology of the rule is considered from the internal point of view, that is, from the stance of those that can be said to “use” rather than to “suffer” the rules themselves. A practice oriented approach could in this way open up a more liberal, and also somehow less parochial and ideological, road for legal theory. This is – it is argued in the paper – the programme, or better, the promise we can find in Herbert Hart’s main work, The Concept of Law. The article tries to render this promise more transparent while, nonetheless, not eschewing the blind sides of its narrative and argumentative strategy.