“The broader understandings of legal studies, encompassing critique and theory of
all kinds, can be discomforting because they illuminate and interrogate the how,
the why, the is and the ought of law.” (Margaret Thornton)
Discuss Thornton’s statement by reference to HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (3rd
edn, OUP 2012) 91-106 (ending with ‘a sovereign legislative power which is legally
unlimited.’) and pages 124-136, and Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish,
(Pantheon, 1977) Part 3, chapter 3 (‘Panopticism’).
