Prior to the publication of Hart's The Concept of Law, it was not uncommon for legal philosophers to identify jurisprudence with the quest for a definition of "law." 1,2 Hart explicitly resisted this characterization of the ambition of jurisprudence; the subject matter of jurisprudence is law, not "law." Notwithstanding Hart's assertions to the contrary, in Law's Empire Ronald Dworkin argues that Hart's own legal positivism as well as other familiar jurisprudential theories (like natural law) are semantic theories: that is, accounts of the meaning of "law." Dworkin further identifies semantic theories with criterialism, according to which the meaning of a term is given by shared criteria

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