Logical Concepts in Legal Positivism: Legal Norms from a Philosophical Perspective

The present work offers an original approach on the legal notions developed by Hans Kelsen in his attempts towards a "pure" theory of Law, based on a philosophical analysis of the main legal concepts that have a strong philosophical feature, namely those notions which are somehow "shared" between the two fields in their name, but not always in their meaning.

While the most striking notion to be approached via a philosophical perspective would

probably be that of legal validity (since validity...