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Hans Kelsen (/ ˈ k ɛ l s ən /; German: [ˈhans ˈkɛlsən]; October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He was the principal architect of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which with amendments is still in operation.
Apr 16, 2024 · Hans Kelsen was an Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law, who formulated a kind of positivism known as the “pure theory” of law. Kelsen was a professor at Vienna, Cologne, Geneva, and the German university in Prague. He wrote the Austrian constitution.
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Nov 18, 2002 · The idea of a Pure Theory of Law was propounded by the formidable Austrian jurist and philosopher Hans Kelsen (1881–1973) (see the bibliographical note). Kelsen began his long career as a legal theorist at the beginning of the 20th century.
Pure Theory of Law is a book by jurist and legal theorist Hans Kelsen, first published in German in 1934 as Reine Rechtslehre, and in 1960 in a much revised and expanded edition. The latter was translated into English in 1967 as Pure Theory of Law. The title is the name of his general theory of law, Reine Rechtslehre.
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May 29, 2018 · Hans Kelsen was a European legal philosopher and teacher who emigrated to the United States in 1940 after leaving Nazi Germany. Kelsen is most famous for his studies on law and especially for his idea known as the pure theory of the law. Kelsen was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on October 11, 1881.
Hans Kelsen. Kelsen, a fierce opponent of natural-law theories, identified the central problem of the philosophy of law as how to explain the normative force of law—i.e., law’s claim to rightfully tell people what they ought to do (such that, for example, they have an obligation of obedience to the law). (Kelsen also thought that law’s ...
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Dec 16, 2023 · Hans Kelsen lived there until 1930 when he joined the University of Cologne. Kelsen did not particularly excel at the Gymnasium . By then, however, he already showed a strong intellectual curiosity: he was attracted by literature and, especially, by physics and mathematics.
