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The Pure Theory of Law and Its “Modern” Positivism: International Legal Uses for Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Jörg Kammerhofer*
Affiliation:
Hans Kelsen Research Group, University of Freiburg, Germany

Abstract

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Type
The Modern Positivist Response to Confronting Complexity in International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

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2 Kelsen, Hans, Allgemeine Theorie der Normen 47, 49 (1979)Google Scholar (all translations by the present author).

3 Id. at 2.

4 Id. at 114.

5 Id. at 187.

6 Kelsen, Hans, The Law of the United Nations: A Critical Analysis of its Fundamental Problems 533 (1950)Google Scholar.

7 Kelsen, supra note 2, at 99.

8 E.g., Gaja, Giorgio, General Principles of Law, in 4 Max Planck Encyclopedia Pub. Int’l L. 370 (Wolfram, Rüdiger ed., 2012)Google Scholar.