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Juridiskā zinātne, Nr. 11
2018
The publishing of Journal “Law” of the University of Latvia is financed by the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. The publishing of issue No. 11 is supported by “Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns” Law Office.
La normatividad nomólogica de Paulson
2017
In some of his recent work Stanley Paulson puts forward a number of important and ambitious exegetical claims about Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. Some of these claims are not novel in Paulson’s rich Kelsenian corpus. But, taken together, these claims now amount to the main outlines of a fully-fledged interpretation of the theoretical foundations of the Pure Theory of Law. Paulson holds that (1) contrary to what Joseph Raz, Carlos S. Nino and many others have claimed, there is, in the Pure Theory of Law, no “justified normativity” thesis. Kelsenian normativity is, rather, “nomological” normativity. (2) ‘Validity’ is not, in the Pure Theory of Law, a matter of the reasons norm-subjects ma…