Hans Kelsen and the Bindingness of Supra-National Legal Norms
The pure theory of law is a positivist legal theory put forward by Hans Kelsen. Recently there have been two attempts to understand democracy as a source for the normativity that the pure theory assigns to law. Lars Vinx seeks to understand the pure theory as a theory of political legitimacy, in whi...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2012
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Online Access: | http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/116 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1116&context=philosophy_theses |