Normativity and Norms Critical Perspectives on Kelsenian Themes [Hardcover]

Hans Kelsen's efforts in the areas of legal philosophy and legal theory are considered by many scholars of law to be the most influential thinking of this century. This volume makes available some of the best work extant on Kelsen's theory, including papers newly translated into English. The book covers such topics as competing philosophical positions on the nature of law, legal validity, legal powers, and the unity of municipal and international law. It also throws much light on Kelsen's intellectual milieu--as well as his intellectual debts.

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Introduction
Part I. Intellectual Debts
1. Foreword to the Second Printing ofMain Problems in the Theory of Public Law(1923),Hans Kelsen
2. Kelsen's Earliest Legal Theory: Critical Constructivism,Stanley L. Paulson
Part II. Normativity and the Scope of Kelsen's Theory
3. Kelsen Visited,H.L.A. Hart
4. Kelsen's Theory of the Basic Norm,Joseph Raz
5. The Basic Norm of a Society,Tony Honor??
6. The Law as Pure `Sollen' sui generis,Alf Ross
7. The Reception of Norms and Open Legal Systems,Jos?? Juan Moreso and Pablo Navarro
Part III. The Normativity Problematic: Kantian Arguments versus Kelsen without Kant
[Part III] A. A Kantian or Neo-Kantian Dimension in the Pure Theory of Law?
8. Pure Theory of Law, `Labandism', and Neo-Kantianism. A Letter to Renato Treves,Hans Kelsen
9. A Neo-Kantian Theory of Legal Knowledge in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law,Stefan Hammer
10. TheHypothesisof the Basic Norm: Hans Kelsen and Hermann Cohen,Geert Edel
11. On the Transcendental Import of Kelsen's Basic Norm,Gerhard Luf
[Part III] B. Kelsen without Kant
12. Some Confusions Surrounding Kelsen's Concept of Legal Validity,Carlos Santiago Nino
13. Two Models of lã-