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