1 Introduction
Luís Duarte d'Almeida, John Gardner and Leslie Green
I. LEGAL VALIDITY AND THE BASIC NORM
2 Norm-claims, Validity and Self-reference
Bert van Roermund
3 The Great Puzzle: Kelsen's Basic Norm
Stanley L Paulson
4 The Basic Norm Revisited
Riccardo Guastini
II. LAW'S EMPIRICAL EXISTENCE
5 The Efficacy of Constitutional Norms
Pablo E Navarro
6 The Realist Hans Kelsen
Uta Bindreiter
7 Wiener Realism
Pierluigi Chiassoni
8 Kelsen and Hägerström: Clearing Up Misunderstandings and Mapping Out the Common Ground
Jes Bjarup
9 A 'Realistic' Theory of Law and the Pure Theory of Law: Remarks
on Alf Ross's On Law and Justice
Hans Kelsen
III. LEGAL NORMS AND LEGAL SCIENCE
10 Kelsen on the Completeness and Consistency of Law
Eugenio Bulygin
11 The Alternative Character of the Legal Norm: Kelsen as a Defeasibilist?
Richard HS Tur
12 In Canonical Form: Kelsen's Doctrine of the 'Complete' Legal Norm
Luís Duarte d'Almeida
This collection of 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 are written by internationally renowned scholars from seven countries.
The book will be of great interest to all those working in the field of legal philosophy as well as those interested in Kelsen more generally.
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Biografisk notat
Luís Duarte d'Almeida is Chancellor's Fellow in Law at the University of Edinburgh.
John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
Leslie Green is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford.