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International Legal Positivism And Legal Realism, D. A. Jeremy Telman
International Legal Positivism And Legal Realism, D. A. Jeremy Telman
Law Faculty Publications
This chapter, a contribution to a book on International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World, gauges the potential for mutually enriching interactions between international legal positivism and legal realism. It first describes the encounter between legal positivism and legal realism in the U.S. legal academy and then proceeds to discuss the rise of a new legal realism in international legal theory. In a concluding section, the chapter assesses the compatibilities and tensions between the new international legal realism and the new international legal positivism.
With its forthright embrace of the inescapability of uncertainty in law, the new international legal …
A Path Not Taken: Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory Of Law In The Land Of Legal Realists, D. A. Jeremy Telman
A Path Not Taken: Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory Of Law In The Land Of Legal Realists, D. A. Jeremy Telman
Law Faculty Publications
This Essay is a contribution to a volume on the influence of Hans Kelsen’s legal theory in over a dozen countries. The Essay offers four explanations for the failure of Kelsen’s pure theory of law to take hold in the United States. Part I covers the argument that Kelsen’s approach failed in the United States because it is inferior to H. L. A. Hart’s brand of legal positivism. Part II discusses the historical context in which Kelsen taught and published in the United States and explores both philosophical and sociological reasons why the legal academy in the United States rejected …
México: ¿Nuevamente Una Colonia Europea?, Richard Stith
México: ¿Nuevamente Una Colonia Europea?, Richard Stith
Law Faculty Publications
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Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, And Autonomous--All At The Same Time?, Richard Stith, J.H.H. Weiler
Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, And Autonomous--All At The Same Time?, Richard Stith, J.H.H. Weiler
Law Faculty Publications
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