THE RELEVANCE OF THE HART & FULLER DEBATE RELATING TO LAW AND MORALITY- A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract The Hart-Fuller debate is perhaps one of the most interesting academic debates of all times that took place in jurisprudence. It demonstrates the divide that exists between the positivist and the natural philosophy of law regarding the role of morality in law. While, Hart argued that law and morality are separate from each other and they can be termed as mutually exclusive. Fuller was of the view that there exists a deep connection between law and morality and the authority of law is derived from its consistency with morality. The researcher in this paper attempts to study the relationship that exists between law and morality with reference to Hart-Fuller debate. The Researcher has followed doctrinal methodology for undertaking this research, and has collected the materials from various books, articles and websites.