Kelsen Revisited

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.

• 1 Introduction Luís Duarte d'Almeida, John Gardner and Leslie GreenI. LEGAL VALIDITY AND THE BASIC NORM2 Norm-claims, Validity and Self-reference Bert van Roermund3 The Great Puzzle: Kelsen's Basic Norm Stanley L Paulson4 The Basic Norm Revisited Riccardo GuastiniII. LAW'S EMPIRICAL EXISTENCE5 The Efficacy of Constitutional Norms Pablo E Navarro6 The Realist Hans Kelsen Uta Bindreiter7 Wiener Realism Pierluigi Chiassoni8 Kelsen and Hägerström: Clearing Up Misunderstandings and Mapping Out the Common Ground Jes Bjarup9 A 'Realistic' Theory of Law and the Pure Theory of Law: Remarks on Alf Ross's On Law and Justice Hans KelsenIII. LEGAL NORMS AND LEGAL SCIENCE10 Kelsen on the Completeness and Consistency of Law Eugenio Bulygin11 The Alternative Character of the Legal Norm: Kelsen as a Defeasibilist? Richard HS Tur12 In Canonical Form: Kelsen's Doctrine of the 'Complete' Legal Norm Luís Duarte d'Almeida

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