Hans Kelsen
Austrian lawyer (1881–1973)
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Kelsen shaped 20th-century legal philosophy with his "pure theory of law," stripping jurisprudence down to its logical skeleton. The Austrian-American jurist became the intellectual backbone for how courts and constitutions get theorized today.
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Hans Kelsen was an Austrian and later American jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is known principally for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory of law ", and for his writings on international law and theory of democracy.
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