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18 lis 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.
- Nature of Law
Contemporary legal theories define these two main interests...
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27 maj 2001 · Contemporary legal theories define these two main interests in the nature of law in the following terms. First, we need to understand the general conditions that would render any putative norm legally valid.
Simple definitions of the rule of law describe the concept as ‘government by law, not by men’, or ‘the subjection of all state power to the law’, or ‘the limitation of arbitrary government’.
Character of Law".1 Law has several fundamental characteristics. My main thesis is that formality is one of these. I define a "formal" feature of law as one that is in some way independent of the substantive content of the law. For example, the definitiveness of a legal rule is a formal feature of the rule's configuration, and is
3 sty 2003 · Legal positivism is the thesis that the existence and content of law depends on social facts and not on its merits. The English jurist John Austin (1790–1859) formulated it thus: The existence of law is one thing; its merit and demerit another.
2 maj 2018 · When talking about law in a transnational, global or comparative perspective, legal scholars often use expressions like legal cultures, legal families and legal traditions. We employ these macro-level concepts to categorise and analyse legal systems and to build methodological frameworks for comparison.
The formal or immediate sources of law are the officials who set up the standards of action due to their position in the government. Commentaries or law treatises are never formal sources of law, nor are they forms of law.
