Legality and legitimacy
Subtitle: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelson, and Hermann Heller in Weimar
By: David Dyzenhaus.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Rule of law.; Legitimacy of governments.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.
Description: This text investigates one of the oldest questions of legal philosophy - the relationship between law and legitimacy. It analyses the legal theories of three public lawyers of the Weimar era, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-268) and index.