1st Edition

General Theory of Law and State

By Hans Kelsen Copyright 2005
556 Pages
by Routledge

556 Pages
by Routledge

556 Pages
by Routledge

Widely regarded as the most important legal theorist of the twentieth century, Hans Kelsen is best known for his formulation of the "pure theory of law", - within which the study of international law was his special field of work. The present volume, "General Theory of Law and State", first published in 1945, allowed Kelsen to adjust his pure theory of law to American circumstances after World War... Read more
I: The Law; Nomostatics; I: The Concept of Law; II: The Sanction; III: The Delict; IV: The Legal Duty; V: The Legal Responsibility; VI: The Legal Right; VII: Competence (Legal Capacity); VIII: Imputation (Imputability); IX: The Legal Person; Nomodynamics; X: The Legal Order; XI: The Hierarchy of the Norms; XII: Normative and Sociological Jurisprudence; II: The State; 13: The Law and the State; II: The Elements of The State; III: The Separation of Powers; IV: Forms of Government: Democracy and Autocracy; V: Forms of Organization: Centralization and Decentralization; VI: National and International Law

Biography

Hans Kelsen