Since the law is strictly, logically, connected with our society's concept of law, the law itself is a matter of discussion and controversy. Therefore, what we accept as the concept of law has a strong, even a dramatic impact on the 'hard' law, the law in action, the practice of law. Д¤ This means that the law is its concept or, rather, that the law is the concept of law which we adopt and follow in our conduct. In short, the law is what we believe is the law and what we practice as the law. It is rather a human practice ruled and made possible through norms, principles, values, attitudes, ideas.

The law is not an empirical object, a physical or natural thing. First of all, a discussion about the concept of law is not just a question of theory, or a mere philosophical disquisition without practical effects. It is also intended to be a more general assessment on the fruitfulness of such an approach with special attention to international law.ДЈ Now, before dealing specifically with our subject, two points are important to bear in mind, in order to understand the sense and relevance of the discussion around the concept of law which is the specific function of jurisprudence and legal philosophy. Mine will thus be a presentation and discussion focussing on Hart's concept of law and its relationship to the hierarchical model. Herbert Hart вЂ“ one should not forget it вЂ“ has become and still is one of the most influential jurisprudents of our times and his views imbue several of the current doctrines of legal practice and legal reasoning. These three possibilities are not always present in one single legal theory, though they are not mutually incompatible.Дў In this paper my task will be to tackle the issue of the hierarchical model in the law from the perspective of H. Finally, a further alternative is to conceive of law as a structure of layers, of entities, of rules usually, hierarchically disposed, so that one layer draws the reason of its existence or legitimacy or validity from a layer superior to the one considered. There is, moreover, a second possibility: that which views the law as the outcome of a social fracture between a class empowered with the authority of making or saying the law and a class whose destiny is much more humble and is that of only obeying or being the addressees of the law thus created. 1 To conceive the law as a hierarchical model means first of all putting the fact of command at the heart of legal experience, that is of a power of an inferior over a superior.

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