Juan Camilo Contreras Jaramillo

La teoría pura del derecho en contexto: modernidad, positivismo y el pensamiento científico

This article examines Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law as the legal expression of the epistemological values of European modernity. Drawing on the methodology of intellectual history, and specifically on new historicism, it argues that Kelsenian legal positivism is not an isolated phenomenon in the history of legal phi...