Kelsen Revisited (eBook, PDF)

New Essays on the Pure Theory of Law
Redaktion: Duarte d'Almeida, Luís; Green, Leslie; Gardner, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Forty years after his death, Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) remains one of the most discussed and influential legal philosophers of our time. This collection of new essays takes Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law as a stimulus, aiming to move forward the debate on several central issues in contemporary jurisprudence. The essays in Part I address legal validity, the normativity of law, and Kelsen's famous but puzzling idea of a legal system's 'basic norm'. Part II engages with the difficult issues raised by the social realities of law and the actual practices of legal officials. Part III focuses on conceptual features of legal systems and the logical structure of legal norms. All the essays were written for this volume by internationally renowned scholars from seven countries. Also included, in English translation, is an important polemical essay by Kelsen himself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782252467
• Artikelnr.: 52937349

Autorenporträt

Luís Duarte d'Almeida is Chancellor's Fellow in Law at the University of Edinburgh. John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. Leslie Green is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction Luís Duarte d'Almeida, John Gardner and Leslie Green I.
LEGAL VALIDITY AND THE BASIC NORM 2 Norm-claims, Validity and
Self-reference Bert van Roermund 3 The Great Puzzle: Kelsen's Basic Norm
Stanley L Paulson 4 The Basic Norm Revisited Riccardo Guastini II. LAW'S
EMPIRICAL EXISTENCE 5 The Efficacy of Constitutional Norms Pablo E Navarro
6 The Realist Hans Kelsen Uta Bindreiter 7 Wiener Realism Pierluigi
Chiassoni 8 Kelsen and Hägerström: Clearing Up Misunderstandings and
Mapping Out the Common Ground Jes Bjarup 9 A 'Realistic' Theory of Law and
the Pure Theory of Law: Remarks on Alf Ross's On Law and Justice Hans
Kelsen III. LEGAL NORMS AND LEGAL SCIENCE 10 Kelsen on the Completeness and
Consistency of Law Eugenio Bulygin 11 The Alternative Character of the
Legal Norm: Kelsen as a Defeasibilist? Richard HS Tur 12 In Canonical Form:
Kelsen's Doctrine of the 'Complete' Legal Norm Luís Duarte d'Almeida