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Hans Kelsen Quotes

1881–1973 Austria

Hans Kelsen (October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher.

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It is called a “pure” theory of law, because it only describes the law and attempts to eliminate from the object of this description everything that is not strictly law: Its aim is to free the science of law from alien elements. This is the methodological basis of the theory.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans Kelsen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.