Kelsen revisited
Subtitle: new essays on the pure theory of law
By: edited by Luis Duarte d'Almeida, John Gardner and Leslie Green
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781849464567
Subjects: Law; Philosophy; Jurisprudence
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: "This volume is a selection of 10 original essays that refine and develop ideas first presented at the conference, "Legal Science and Legal Theory," held at the University of Oxford in September 2010 to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of the enormously influential second edition of Kelsen's "Pure Theory of Law"--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Luís Duarte d'Almeida, John Gardner and Leslie Green; title: Norm-claims, validity and self-reference  -- Bert van Roermund; title: The great puzzle : Kelsen's basic norm  -- Stanley L. Paulson; title: The basic norm revisited  -- Riccardo Guastini; title: The efficacy of constitutional norms  -- Pablo E. Navarro; title: The realist Hans Kelsen  -- Uta Bindreiter; title: Wiener realism  -- Pierluigi Chiassoni; title: Kelsen and Hägerström : clearing up misunderstandings and mapping out the common ground  -- Jes Bjarup; title: A "realistic" theory of law and the pure theory of law : remarks on Alf Ross's On law and justice  -- Hans Kelsen; title: Kelsen on the completeness and consistency of law  -- Eugenio Bulygin; title: The alternative character of the legal norm : Kelsen as a defeasibilist?  -- Richard H.S. Tur; title: In canonical form : Kelsen's doctrine of the "complete" legal norm -- Luís Duarte d'Almeida.