What Is Justice? Justice, Law and Politics in the Mirror of Science - Softcover

Kelsen, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616193956 ISBN 13: 9781616193959

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2013

Synopsis

What Is Justice? Justice, Law and Politics in the Mirror of Science Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. [vi], 397 pp. Through the lens of science, Hans Kelsen proposes a dynamic theory of natural law, examines Platonic and Aristotelian doctrines of justice and the idea of justice as found in the holy scriptures. "You simply cannot get around this book if you want a real understanding of the fundamental ideas on which the great work of Kelsen is built. Reading this volume you may once more admire the transparent clarity of style and the merciless consistency of reasoning which are well known qualities of this author." -- Alf Ross, 45 California Law Review 564 1957. Possibly the most influenti...

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About the Author:

Hans Kelsen had a distinguished career at a variety of European universities, and in government services, at Vienna, Cologne, the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes in Paris, and then in Prague. He served as legal adviser to the United Nations War Crimes Commission in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1616193956
• ISBN 13: 9781616193959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410