Reine Rechtslehre

The second edition of the Pure Theory of Law , published in 1960, was in equal measure the culmination and the conclusion of the so-called classical phase of Hans Kelsen's legal-theoretical oeuvre. Alongside H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law (1961), it is the most important classic work of modern positivist jurisprudence.

Matthias Jestaedt (Herausgegeben von)
is Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg.
Hans Kelsen (Von (Autor))
(1881-1973): 1919-30 university professor in Vienna; 1919-1930 constitutional judge; 1930-33 professor in Cologne; 1933-40 professor in Geneva; 1936-38 professor in Prague; 1945-52 professor in Berkeley.