Kelsen Revisited: New Essays on the Pure Theory of Law

ISBN-13: 9781849464567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 298 str.

John Gardner; Leslie Green

Opis

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 of the book's contributors are internationally renowned scholars, including Uta Bindreiter, Jes Bjarup, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Eugenio Bulygin, Riccardo Guastini, Pablo E. Navarro, Stanley L. Paulson, Bert van Roermund, and Richard Tur.

Spis treści

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