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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Kelsen Revisited: New Essays on the Pure Theory of Law by Edited by Luis Duarte dAlmeida Edited by Professor John Gardner Edited by Leslie Green
40 years after his death Hans Kelsen (1891-1973) remains one of the most discussed and influential legal philosophers of our time. This collection of new essays takes Kelsens 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 Kelsens famous but puzzling idea of a legal systems 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 the essays were written for this volume by internationally renowned scholars from seven countries. Contributors: Uta Bindreiter Jes Bjarup Pierluigi Chiassoni Eugenio Bulygin Riccardo Guastini Pablo E Navarro Stanley L Paulson Bert van Roermund and Richard Tur.