Tag: Legal Method
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Hans Kelsen
An explicitly rational approach to understanding law was promoted by Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), whose pure science of law has been treated as the highest development of analytical positivism, but is now seen in a different light.82 In his Kantian quest for 'pure theory',83 Kelsen searched for […]
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Hans Kelsen
An explicitly rational approach to understanding law was promoted by Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), whose pure science of law has been treated as the highest development of analytical positivism, but is now seen in a different light.82 In his Kantian quest for 'pure theory',83 Kelsen searched for […]
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Legal Positivism
Legal Positivism Description by Several Authors Olivecrona (1971: 141) noted that, when nineteenth-century positivists ‘wanted to make a clean break with natural law doctrine, they ceased to cite the old authorities. But as a matter of course they took over their fundamental concepts.’ David and Brierley (1978: 2) commented on the shift from a theoretical…
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Comparative Law Contents
Comparative Law Contents Introduction to Comparative Law Comparative Law Definition Comparative Law and Foreign Law Comparative Law Method Mixed Legal Systems Influence on National Legal Systems of comparative law Uses of Comparative Law Law Globalization Comparative Law and Language Comparative Law and Legal Culture Comparative Law and Religion Comparative Law and Legal History Comparative Law…