Download This PaperPure Theory of Law
John Linarelli (ed), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2025)
5 Pages Posted: 1 May 2025
Date Written: March 27, 2025
Abstract
This entry in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy describes the Pure Theory of Law, a major modern continental European school of legal positivism founded by Hans Kelsen.
Keywords: Hans Kelsen, legal positivism, normativism, basic norm, normativism, validity
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Kammerhofer, Jörg, Pure Theory of Law (March 27, 2025). John Linarelli (ed), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5196101 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5196101
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