In this work, Hart sets out to write an essay of descriptive sociology and analytical jurisprudence.

Analytical jurisprudence is a legal theory that draws on the resources of modern analytical philosophy to try to understand the nature of law.

Hart revived analytical jurisprudence as an important theoretical debate in the twentieth century through his book The Concept of Law.

Finnis' enduring contribution to analytical jurisprudence is his revival of the "central case" method of understanding concepts of social theory.

Analytical jurisprudence is not to be mistaken for legal formalism (the idea that legal reasoning is or can be modelled as a mechanical, algorithmic process).

H. L. A. Hart was probably the most influential writer in the modern school of analytical jurisprudence, though its history goes back at least to Jeremy Bentham.

The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wisconsin Law Review 975.

Legal decisions are no longer focused on a judge's analytical analysis (as in Analytical jurisprudence), but rather it is the judges themselves that become the focus for determining how the decision was reached.

As a result Hart's view has remained one of the most influential in jurisprudence, while the book is considered as "the most successful work of analytical jurisprudence ever to appear in the common law world"