Chapter 10.

This book has dealt with the virtues of the union of primary and secondary rules, particularly its utility in
examining multiple relationships between law, coercion, and morality. However, Hart clarifies that he
does not claim that law must be defined in this term.

Hart identifies two principal sources of doubt concerning the legal character of international law – first,
the concept of law as a matter of orders backed by threats, and secondly, the incapacity of the states of
being subjects of legal obligation.