The controversy which arose as a result of enforcement of morality by law gave rise to which of the…

The Wolfenden Report (1957) recommended that private homosexual conduct between consenting adults should no longer be a crime. Lord Devlin argued that society may use the law to enforce its shared morality, and H.L.A. Hart replied that the law should not punish conduct merely because it is immoral. Their exchange is the Hart-Devlin debate.

The Hart-Fuller debate concerned the relation between law and morality in the validity of law, and the Hart-Dworkin debate concerned rules and principles in adjudication.