Pure Theory of Law is a book by jurist and legal theorist Hans Kelsen, first published in German in 1934 as Reine Rechtslehre, and in 1960 in a much revised...
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Hans Kelsen (redirect from Hierarchy of laws)
for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory of law (Reine Rechtslehre)", and for his writings on international law and theory of democracy...
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Concept of Law is a 1961 book by the legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart and his most famous work. The Concept of Law presents Hart's theory of legal positivism—the...
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Basic norm (category Philosophy of law)
'Basic norm' (German: Grundnorm) is a concept in the Pure Theory of Law created by Hans Kelsen, a jurist and legal philosopher. Kelsen used this word to...
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Jurisprudence (redirect from Theory of law)
Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be. It...
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continued the positivist tradition in his book the Pure Theory of Law. Kelsen believed that although law is separate from morality, it is endowed with "normativity"...
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Recovery for pure economic loss in English law, arising from negligence, has traditionally been limited. Notably, recovery for losses that are "purely...
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creator of the Pure Theory of Law Karl Korinek, former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the...
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Legal norm (category Administrative theory)
actions of authoritative officials in a normative way. In his book Pure Theory of Law, Hans Kelsen aims to provide a holistic definition of law by embodying...
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or from less abstract mathematical theories. Also, many mathematical theories, which had seemed to be totally pure mathematics, were eventually used in...
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Carlos Cossio (category Academic staff of the National University of La Plata)
definition of law as "interference intersubjective behaviors" brought him into a controversy with Hans Kelsen, creator of the Pure Theory of Law, at the...
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Evgeny Pashukanis (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
Marxism Pashukanis criticised the pure theory of law advanced by leading European legal positivist, Hans Kelsen. Kelsen's theory maintained a strict separation...
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Like rational choice theory, conflict theory, or functionalism, pure sociology is a sociological paradigm — a strategy for explaining human behavior....
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Sources in Law Jelf, Where to Find Your Law: 185 Kelsen, Pure Theory of Law: 272 Kent's Commentaries: 437 Law Books in Print Lawyers' Law Books: 164 ...
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Analytical jurisprudence (category Theories of law)
University of Pennsylvania Law Review Kelsen, Hans (1941). "The Pure Theory of Law and Analytical Jurisprudence". Harvard Law Review. 55 (1): 44–70. doi:10...
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Natural law (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of a set of inherent laws derived from nature...
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H. L. A. Hart (category British philosophers of law)
tradition of Jeremy Bentham, the great English legal, political, and moral philosopher. Hart's conception of law had parallels to the Pure Theory of Law formulated...
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between pure economic loss and consequential economic loss, as pure economic loss occurs independent of any physical damage to the person or property of the...
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Legal relationship (category Sociology of law)
Henderson). The Free Press of Glencoe. ASIN B-000-LRHAX-2. Marmor, Andrei (2021). "The Pure Theory of Law". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Garner, Bryan...
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Slobodan Jovanović (category Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb from 1927. Slobodan Jovanović was a critic of Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law. His primary...
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Vladimír Kubeš (category Philosophers of law)
philosophy of law, including Grundfragen der Philosophie des Rechts (1977). Initially following the normative theory of František Weyr and Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory...
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Gestalt psychology (redirect from Law of Closure)
gestaltism, or configurationism is a school of psychology and a theory of perception that emphasises the processing of entire patterns and configurations, and...
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that laws are validated in a regression of validity ending in the Constitution. The notion was first developed by Hans Kelsen in his Pure Theory of Law and...
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Josef Laurenz Kunz (category University of Vienna alumni)
dissertation on "The Problem of the Violation of Belgian Neutrality". During this time he met Hans Kelsen and embraced his Pure Theory of Law together with cosmopolitanism...
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Marginal utility (redirect from Utility theory of value)
audience. Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras introduced the theory in Éléments d'économie politique pure, the first part of which was published in 1874 in a relatively...
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Norberto Bobbio (category Philosophers of law)
from a pure theory of law to more political issues. He wrote on Hobbes, Mosca, and Pareto. Publications from this period that address the rule of law, rights...
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Euler–Bernoulli beam theory (also known as engineer's beam theory or classical beam theory) is a simplification of the linear theory of elasticity which provides...
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Alfred Verdross (category Philosophers of law)
Verdross's views in his Pure Theory of Law, Verdross admitted that in case of conflict between international law and national law the latter is not per...
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of this debate demonstrates that, at the time, the distinction between pure chemical compounds and mixtures had not yet been fully developed. The law...
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Donald Black (sociologist) (category Harvard Law School faculty)
of Sociology.” Contemporary Sociology 29(5):704-709. 2000. “Dreams of Pure Sociology.” Sociological Theory 18(3):343-367. 2002. “The Geometry of Law:...
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