General Theory of Law and State 1º edição

Originally published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. xxxiii, 516 pp. Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the important Austrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormously influential pure theory of law, which includes a theory of the state. It also has an extensive appendix that discusses the pure theory in comparison with the law of nature, positivism, historical natural law, metaphysical dualism and scientific-critical philosophy.