Kelsen Revisited

New Essays on the Pure Theory of Law
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84946-456-7
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duarte d'Almeida, Luís

Gardner, John

Green, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gardner, John
John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.

Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

Duarte d'Almeida, Luís
Luís Duarte d'Almeida is Chancellor's Fellow in Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Green, Leslie
Leslie Green is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford.

Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

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.